The Beginning of the World. Twenty-Five Pictures. [Foreword by Georgiana Burne-Jones.]

Bookseller Notes

Burne-Jones's designs were intended for an illustrated edition of J.B. Mackail's 'Biblia Innocentium' which was to have been published by the Kelmscott Press, and to have included over 200 illustrations. Twenty-five of the completed designs are presented here, the translation from pencil to ink (prior to engraving) carried out by Robert Catterson Smith, who performed the same task for the Kelmscott Chaucer illustrations, the design conventions agreed for that work, continuing for this edition.The dustjacket is an early example of that attribute in a general sense - scarce in any condition, it carries the title information along with publisher, year and the book's original price (7s. 6d.).