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[PARRISH, Maxfield (1870-1966), illustrator]. SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. New York: Charles Scribner's, 1925.
Unbound folded folio proof sheets (362 x 295 mm). Color proof of cover design, title-page, ex-libris page, character list and closing page, 9 in-text color illustrations, 10 full-page color plates and 2 double-page proofs of the endpapers. Loose as issued in modern red quarter morocco folding case (a few creases to first leaf).
UNBOUND PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, including the cover and the double-page proofs for the decorated endpapers. In a letter to Scribner's, Parrish's excitement was keenly expressed: "I wonder if you have ever read a little play called The Knave of Hearts by Louise Saunders Perkins?... I have read it and seen it acted, and the thought will not down that it would be a most interesting thing to illustrate... The reason I wanted to illustrate The Knave of Hearts was on account of the bully opportunity it gives for a very good time making the pictures. Imagination could run riot, bound down by no period, just good fun and all sorts of things." (C. Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, p. 48)
Unbound folded folio proof sheets (362 x 295 mm). Color proof of cover design, title-page, ex-libris page, character list and closing page, 9 in-text color illustrations, 10 full-page color plates and 2 double-page proofs of the endpapers. Loose as issued in modern red quarter morocco folding case (a few creases to first leaf).
UNBOUND PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION, including the cover and the double-page proofs for the decorated endpapers. In a letter to Scribner's, Parrish's excitement was keenly expressed: "I wonder if you have ever read a little play called The Knave of Hearts by Louise Saunders Perkins?... I have read it and seen it acted, and the thought will not down that it would be a most interesting thing to illustrate... The reason I wanted to illustrate The Knave of Hearts was on account of the bully opportunity it gives for a very good time making the pictures. Imagination could run riot, bound down by no period, just good fun and all sorts of things." (C. Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, p. 48)