Michael West; Alfred Mereer — Clair de Lune and Other Troubadour Romances

George G. Harrap,, 1913. Hardcover. 140p A beautifully produced book with a collection of medieval lyric tales, profusely illustrated with colour plates and music and medieval-style lyric poetry. Contains twelve tales, including 'Our Lady of the Buttercups', 'Sir Hugh', 'The Lonely Isle', 'Lilith' and 'The Six Saints of Healing'. Vignette sketches and tipped in illustrations by Evelyn Paul (1883-1963). Title page highlighted in gold. This book has a full leather blindstamped binding with mock stapled straps extended from the spine to the board edges A blindstamped vignette of a dear on the front board. The book is clean and tight but with a neat owners name neatly on the fep M.D.Ritson - and there is some light foxing about the gutters. The boards are clean but the spine is faded with flaking leather and a little loss at the top of the spine. See scans and email for more. . Good ++