Horace J. Knowles: Beyond Fairyland

Old World Love Stories From the Lays of Marie de France and other Medieval Romances and Legends. Trans- lated from the French by Eugene Mason. KNOWLES, Reginald L. 285. Old World Love Stories Dent, 1913. First edition. 8vo. Pink cloth with elaborate gilt decoration and lettering. Top edge gilt. Complete with original glassine and publisher’s box. Pink silk endpapers. Eight tipped in colour plates and decorative chapter headings in line by Reginald Knowles. A fine copy. The publisher’s box is fragile and lacking some side sections but has served to preserve the book in a lovely bright condition. [33025] 286. “When the Princess saw him she would not willingly withdraw her eyes from him” [1913]. Original watercolour for Old World Love Stories. Image 9cm x 14cm. Glazed and framed, 18.5cm x 26.5cm.Reginald Knowles’s initials to the lower

left hand corner. In clean bright condition. [33026] Illustrates page 257 of Old World Love Stories.

The Round Of The Year Decorations by Reginald Knowles and Drawings by Alfred E. Taylor STRONG, Patience

A Gift From Reginald Knowles To His Brother Horace 287. The Round Of The Year Muller, 1945. First edition. 8vo. Inscribed “ To Horace with best wishes from Reginald L. Knowles, Xmas 1945” Black and white page decoration by Regi- nald Knowles. A very good copy in good dustwrapper. [32921]

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