ALADORE. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1914. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-xii [xiii-xiv] 1-362 [363] [364: blank], fifteen inserted plates with collotype illustrations from drawings by Lady Hylton, full vellum, front and spine panels stamped in black, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 150 numbered large copies printed on handmade paper, this being copy number 146. A presentation copy with Newbolt's inscription on front free endpaper: "With the author's love / December 1914." A quest fantasy somewhat in the manner of William Morris's romances of the 1880s and 1890s. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 3-270. Clute and Grant, The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, pp. 681-82. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature I, pp. 4-6. Circular bookplate of Howard Pease (the recipient?) affixed to front paste-down. Vellum faintly scratched and a bit discolored, slight warping to fore-edges, front free endpaper mildly darkened (light ghosting from bookplate), a very good or better copy. (#8772).

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"One Hundred and Fifty Copies of / this volume have been printed on / hand-made paper, of which this is / No." on recto of first leaf.