[Unusual Fine Binding] Green Arras Private Press with birds

with birds

one at Brown College

Six bands to spine with title and author in second and third compartments

One of 250 copies

[Unusual Fine Binding] Green Arras Private Press with birdsHousman, Laurence. Green Arras. London: John Lane at the Bodley Head. Chicago: Way and Williams, 1896. First edition. Double page illustrated title page by the author, with 5 other illustrations by him. Bound in an unusual full calf binding, with a black & white Will H. Low illustration of a reclining woman and cherub transferred to the leather on the front cover, which has been lightly illuminated in white, blue, and green. Art nouveau style