Gertrude Bone - The Hidden Orchis - First Edition

BONE, Gertrude (1876-1962), [BONE, Stephen, illustrator].

The Hidden Orchis.

London: The Medici Society, 1928.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.49; [3]. Publisher's yellow quarter cloth over brown paper covered boards, titles in gilt to spine, top edge gilt others untrimmed. Dust-jacket with printed price of 3s. 6d. net to front flap. Illustrated with six plates and numerous in text line drawings. Printed at the Chiswick press.

Top edge a little dusty, Medici Society publicity postcard loosely inserted with offset toning to the facing pages, offset toning to endpapers. Dust-jacket a little toned, more so to spine, lightly rubbed to folds. Very good.