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GUILLAUMIN, Emile.
The Life of a Simple Man.
Translated by Margaret Holden. With a Foreword by Edward Garnett. Limited Edition with Hand-Coloured Woodcuts by Agatha Walker.
Second edition. One of a limited edition of 100 copies with hand-coloured woodcuts. Originally published in 1919. This copy with an extra set of hand-coloured plates loosely inserted.
Octavo. Original white cloth backed grey boards, printed paper label to spine. With the dust jacket. Hand-coloured frontispiece and 6 plates. Gift inscription of Alan Hancox, Cheltenham bookseller, to the front flap of the dust jacket. Small bookplate to rear pastedown. Lower edges of boards a little darkened. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed jacket with tanned spine panel and a few short closed tears repaired to the verso.
