JOHN FARLEIGH. — Graven Image. An Autobiographical Textbook.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 388pp. Paper-covered boards featuring a magnificent double-spread engraving by the author. The top edge lightly dust soiled, else a fine copy in near fine non-price-clipped pink paper dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at the head of the spine panel and with a little internal spotting, a trace of which is just discernible on the exterior of the rear panel. A superbly preserved example of his masterful textbook of engraving and book decoration, illustrated throughout with photographs, reproductions and progressive proofs of Farleigh's most celebrated designs (including Shaw's 'Black Girl' and 'Scraps and Shavings', Butler's 'Way of all Flesh' and D. H. Lawrence's 'The Man Who Dies')., Near Fine, Near Fine