Description
The limited edition of Far Away And Long Ago by William Henry Hudson, a large-paper edition of 110 copies. With a signed plate by Eric Daglish.
Quarto, xxiii, [1], 337pp, [1]. Original full vellum, title stamped in gilt, illustration on front cover in gilt. Silk bookmark, top edge gilt. Both covers starting to bow, as is typical with this publication.
Complete with frontispiece portrait and 11 full-page illustrations by Eric Daglish. This work is from a limited edition of 110 sets, this being number 107.
Includes an additional tipped-in plate, signed by Eric Daglish.
Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life by W. H. Hudson was first published in 1918, with the London edition issued by J. M. Dent & Sons and the American edition by E. P. Dutton & Company. (Wilson, 32) The book is Hudson’s memoir of his childhood on the Argentine pampas, combining autobiography, natural history, and recollections of rural South American life.
A fine press edition appeared in 1943, published by the Limited Editions Club in Buenos Aires, with an introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham, lithographs by Raúl Rosarivo, design by Alberto Kraft, and a limitation of 1,500 signed copies.
