She stoops to conquer, or, The mistakes of a night
By: by Oliver Goldsmith ; illustrated by Hugh Thomson
Contributors: Thomson, Hugh, 1860-1920, illustrator; Lane, William Arbuthnot, 1856-1943, former owner; Bayntun-Riviere (Bindery); Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Published: 1912
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
Notes: Imprint date from refs. below.

"This edition is limited to 350 copies, signed by the artist and numbered ..."

Twenty-five mounted color plates included in pagination.

Rare Book copy: Inscribed to W. Arbuthnot Lane by the artist, with a drawing of a man in a hunting hat, dated Dec. 1912; edition statement crossed out [by the artist].

BM, 88:331

Thieme-Becker, Künstler-Lexicon, 33:79

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: Bound in full blue goatskin; upper and lower covers gold-tooled in a center- and cornerpiece design with flora, fauna, hearts, and moons; spine with five raised bands, gilt in compartments; inner joint of blue goatskin; doublure of red goatskin, gold-tooled with a woman carrying a parasol at center; wide turn-ins with gold-tooled frame of fillet lines and pin-dot rolls; free endpapers lined with cream silk; all edges gilt; blue ribbon markers; blue and white silk endbands sewn with a front bead; signed "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England" at tail end of upper turn-in.