EXRARE ART NOUVEAU RUTH 1ST 1896 WB MCDOUGALL ARTS & CRAFTS AMAZING ORNATE PAGES

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EXRARE ART NOUVEAU RUTH 1ST 1896 WB MCDOUGALL ARTS & CRAFTS AMAZING ORNATE PAGES:
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RARE CLASSIC!!AN ARTS AND CRAFTS/ART NOUVEAU MASTERPIECE!!\"THE BOOK OF RUTH\"1ST EDITION 1896ILLUSTRATED AND DECORATED BY W.B. MACDOUGALLThis is Regarded as Macdougall\'s Best Work - Beautiful illustrations and decorations!!RARELY SEEN - ESPECIALLY IN ITS ORIGINAL DELUXE GILT STAMPED FINE ARTS AND CRAFTS BINDING!!
(Rarely seen - but when it is it is usually found in the plain blind stamped binding - rather than this deluxe gilt stamped binding)
EVERY ILLUSTRATED PAGE ORNATE!!
In William Brown MacDougall\'s Inimitable Style - So Much Like William Morris\'s Kelmscott Press Style, or Edward Burne-Jones, Will Bradley, or Lawrence Housman.1896 - Original Throughout!
A Large and Impressive Book - 10\" x 8\"RARE AND BEAUTIFUL!

Just Look at the Arts and Crafts, and Art Nouveau Influence in these Illustrations and Decorations!Printed on Heavy Laid PaperA CLASSIC - SIMILAR TO ONE OF THE PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS
AN ARTS AND CRAFTS MASTERPIECE!Some of the Illustrations Have a Glasgow School/Jessie King/Pre-Raphaelite feel! Original 1st edition form!! Absolutely fantastic!!
No Writing, Coloring, Highlighting or any other defacing markings at all!! Beautiful Throughout!Similar to Granville Fell orArthur Gaskin\'s work with the Guild of Handicrafts, or similar to the feel of Elbert Hubbard\'s Roycroft/Roycrofters Press

Just look at the photographs to give you a feel for the amazing quality of these illustrations - the detail is fantastic!!
Text Block and Illustrations all complete!!!

WilliamBrown MacDougall worked in Scotland at the Edinburgh School of Art as well as with Charles Rennie Mackintosh at the Glasgow School of Art,of course is contemporary with Arthur Rackham, John Ruskin, Ashbee, Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, William de Morgan, Mission and Liberty & Co. style, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Louis Rhead, and of course Mucha and the Maitre de L\'Affiches and otherartistsor the period.
This complete 1stEdition is in Very Good Condition indeed!! It hassome staining and rubbing to the covers and spine - See Photo\'s, Much of the the Gilt Blocking and Patterning is still strong! Staining just affects front endpapers - No childish coloring or marking to the text or illustrations - Overall this is one of the better copies of thisrare and sought afterbook I have ever seen!!
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