[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 14 in an edition of 200

in an edition of 200 copies

longtime editor at Little

which to Hill was a role more like today's social worker

Gilt ruled covers with blind tooled bands extending onto the covers from spine bands

"[Way & Williams'] most notable book of 1895 was an edition of Shelley's translation of Plato's Banquet designed by Bruce Rogers in an obvious imitation of the Kelmscott Press style

[Lynd Ward | Signed] The Ballad of Reading Gaol E-List 14 in an edition of 200Wilde, Oscar. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. New York: Macy Masius The Vanguard Press, 1928. Composition and presswork by the Marchbanks Press. Limited to 2000 copies. Full page illustrations and page decorations in mezzotint by Lynd Ward; his first fine press book. With a somewhat ironic inscription from Ward opposite the title page: "With a special inscription because this is the first book. Lynd Ward". Bound in full black morocco with title in gilt to