USED, with light wear and aging. Please see description and photos for more details.

BEAUTY'S AWAKENING A MASQUE OF WINTER AND OF SPRING by Art Workers Guild - 1899

Product Description

Beauty's Awakening, A Masque of Winter And of Spring

by Members of the Art Workers Guild

Written, designed and presented by the Art Worker's Guild, this work is a dramatic allegory that reveals the internal movements of Winter and Spring through motifs such as Truth, Beauty, Memory, Life, Power, Obedience, and Sacrifice. This illustrated edition features sketches of sets, props, costumes and sheet music from the production. 38 pages. 12" by 8.5".

"Another Page! Fair in our sight The leaf lies waiting, virgin-white, For Time the scribe to use the sheet, And make his half told tale complete. Screened from us, secret, hidden quite, He holds his fateful pen to write Another Page."

Edition features custom binding.

Published by: Art Worker's Guild, Britain. 1899.

Hardback is overall in GOOD condition.

• Features B&W and color illustrations and vintage advertisements.
• Leather covers feature marbling and leather corners.
• Leather spine features title in guilt.
• Covers show some wear with an abbrasion to the front top and wear along the perimeter.
• Leather of spine appears to show abbrasions, creasing and water stains; head and tail lightly bumped.
• Deckled pages.
• Binding is secure.
• Writing in red ink and pencil on front pastedown.
• Front and back hinge cracked.
• Interior shows light creasing to pages, some foxing though is limited mostly to frontmatter with some discoloration to the top portion of the fore edge of text block otherwise interior is clean.
• No writing, highlighting, underlining or other intentional marks.
• Book may exhibit additional minor signs of age or wear.
• JS20160324

AS IS! Please see photos. More photos available upon request.

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