CHAPMAN, Robert William (1881-1960). Cancels … With Eleven Facsimiles in Collotype. London: Constable and Co Ltd., 1930. 8vo (222 x 150mm). Half titles, text printed on blue paper, facsimile plates, one folding plate. Original vellum-backed marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, uncut. Provenance: William Delafield (label). LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. With 3 other books of related interest, namely William Morris’s Some Hints on Pattern Designing (London, “Printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press,” 1899, original linen-backed paper boards), Plato’s Symposium or Supper, Newly translated by Francis Birrell and Shane Leslie ([London], The Fortune Press, [1925], original full vellum gilt (a little bowed), NUMBER 13 OF 175 COPIES SIGNED BY SHANE LESLIE) and Harriet and Mary being the Relations between Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harriet Shelley, Mary Shelley and Thomas Jefferson Hogg ([London], The Golden Cockerel Press, 1944, original leather-backed buckram, NUMBER 284 OF 500 COPIES); and with a modern ring binder containing many samples of handmade paper types, marbled endpapers, etc. (5)
