[Hand Colored | Paul Elder] Sonnets from the Portuguese Extra Illustrated and his efforts to obtain

and his efforts to obtain them

Bit of lift and crease to lower front corner

Designed and printed by Hammer

(The edition itself was designed as a tour de force of book production

typographic design

[Hand Colored | Paul Elder] Sonnets from the Portuguese Extra Illustrated and his efforts to obtainBrowning, 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