[Will Ransom | Handcraft Shop] Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire Private Press dark green

dark green

and dots to the covers and spine

The prominent Portuguese realist’s devotional prose poem

Gilt ruled turn-ins with light blue endpapers

[Will Ransom | Handcraft Shop] Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire Private Press dark greenWilde, Oscar. Ave Imperatrix! A Dirge of Empire. The Handcraft Shop, Snohomish, WA, 1902. Limited to 150 copies, of which this is #6. Limp dark red polished calf. Full page black & white plate with hand colored border. 31 pages of text (on recto only) printed within a woodcut of a tree, vines and thorns with a hand colored and gilt capital. Additional capital to the preface and colophon. The title page, caption to the plate and printer's device on