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[UK - Vale Press] FIELD, Michael The race of leaves. (London, the Ballantyne Press, sold by Hacon & Ricketts, [June] 8vo. Publisher's binding: half grey paper, decorated (dead leaves in buff and green) paper boards designed by Ch. Ricketts, flat spine with lettered label (spine soiled). Top edge trimmed. Opening with a nice ornamented border in black figuring on top Janus, on left the medal of Comodus, and the Amazon and her moon-shaped shield, and below the Nemean lion's skin and Herakles' mace. Decorated also with a black initial and sm. ornament on first page of text, and with half-borders at the start of each Act. Illustrations by Ch. Ricketts. Printed in Vale type in red & black. Edition limited to unnumbered copies (incl. on vellum), one of the on Arnold's hand-made paper. Ref. Watry B- Ransom, Vale Press, - Tomkinson, Vale Press, - A collection of books designed by Charles Ricketts. Zurich, L'Art ancien, bulletin pp. 2-n. Prov. Rainforth Armitage Walker (1886-1967), Art collector, friend & biographer of Aubrey Beardsley (bookpl.).