Author:
The Portfolio Society, founded 1874 [Silvanus P. Thompson (1851-1915); Annie Collings; Juliet Reckett; F. O. W. Smith; Samuel Davies; Mr Stanfield; Barbara Bodichon (1827-1891)]
Publication details:
The twenty-six essays dating from 1894; with four pages of 'Rules' from November 1931 bound in.
344pp., 4to. 26 essays (one of them in two parts), comprising 332pp. in manuscript and 7pp. in typescript, with three full-page illustrations, and five printed pages at the start. In good condition, on lightly-aged paper, in worn and rebacked blue buckram binding, with an elaborate design in the style of Walter Crane in gilt on front board, depicting a Grecian maid plucking apples, incorporating the words 'The Portfolio Socy.', a Latin motto and the date 1894. This design is duplicated in print on the recto of the first leaf of the volume, with the date '189' completed with a '4' in pencil.
