The Little Flowers of Saint Francis of Assisi with Eight Illustrations by Paul Woodroffe

Paul Woodroffe

London and Leamington

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Art and Book Company

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1899

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First Thus.

19.5cm x 13cm. viii, 277 pages, 8 plates. Original green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration.

First Edition of the Fioretti with illustrations by Woodroffe. One of his early sets of illustrations produced while he was a student of the stain-glass artist, Christopher Whall. This copy in the original decorative publisher’s binding and with the bookplate of Rosalie Blanche Farmer (nee Kelly).

Moderate foxing throughout, more so to the text than the plates. Very Good Condition.