[H.M. O'Kane | Hand-Colored] Pre-Raphaelite Ballads

Morris, William. Pre-Raphaelite Ballads. New York: A. Wessels, 1900. Designed and partly printed by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press. Limited to 500 numbered large copies on Old Stratford paper, of which this is #236. Printed with red initials and illustrated with black & white full-page decorations by H.M. O'Kane. The borders of all pages have been hand-colored, along with O'Kane's endpaper illustration (which was not present on the Japan Vellum copy). Holland spine with decorated paper-covered boards. Browning to front and rear covers. “The ballads have red initial letters and are embellished by beautiful symbolical borders in black and white: the text is printed direct from a new font of type [ATF Satanick]” (Publishers Weekly). “…O'Kane is to be congratulated that [her] work has a quickly apparent charm, and that amid a multitude of pitfalls [she] has succeeded in giving Morris’s ballads a suitable setting, for the first and last thing that strikes the reader…is an atmosphere