Walter SCOTT / Ivanhoe A Romance Signed Limited Editions Club 1940

Author: SCOTT, Walter Title: Ivanhoe: A Romance Publication: New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1940. Designs and illustrations by Allen Lewis.

Frontispieces, numerous 2-page illustrations, small decorations, pictorial endpapers. Slipcase faintly edgeworn, with two seams neatly, discreetly. Bright and handsome set of the second title in the LEC's twelfth series (a title they published again in 1951).

Colophon at rear of second volume notes limitation of 1500 numbered copies (this #1132) signed large and bold by illustrator Lewis, whose dramatic linoleum-block plates are powerful and evocative. Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts.

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