NICHOLSON, WILLIAM. An Alphabet. Set of 26 hand-colored woodcuts on card mounts, each signed in ink by the artist. 9 3/4x7 3/4 image size; 14x17 inches card size; original printed vellum portfolio, wear to flaps, waterstaining to rear cover; plates and signatures of "A"-"B" and "V"-"Z" on modern mounts, else original; each plate archivally matted. [London, 1898]
Very scarce completeedition de luxe of William Nicholson's universally appealing Alphabet series. "In this edition, woodcuts printed from the original blocks were hand-coloured by the artist, trimmed to the border, mounted on card, signed in pen and ink on the card and issued loose in a portfolio" -- Campbell, page 182.
