[Hand Colored | Paul Elder] Sonnets from the Portuguese Extra Illustrated (The edition itself was designed

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typographic design

Proof pages from Ecclesiastes

Small hole to upper edge of rear hinge

[Hand Colored | Paul Elder] Sonnets from the Portuguese Extra Illustrated (The edition itself was designedBrowning, Elizabeth Barrett. Sonnets from the Portuguese. San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1910. Limited to 1600 copies, of which this is #798. Includes photogravure frontispiece of the author. Decorative headers and borders throughout by Harold Sichel, which have beautifully hand illuminated in green, yellow, and ochre watercolors, and accented with gold paint. (The rear of the box has the sticker of A. E. Little's art and stationery store in