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black and white in the text, and a drawing also by Rackham on the olive-green end-papers. This edition is a reprint of the 1898 edition, with added illustrations and larger pages. Yellow silk ties.
There is a trade edition bound in olive-green cloth with the same pictorial stamping in gold as the limited edition, and gold lettering. Size, 7¼×10.
American Edition: This edition is the same as the English trade edition, with one exception: it is bound in both the blue and the green cloths. All first editions are dated 1907.
AULD/ACQUAINTANCE/A BOOK FOR/FRIENDS &/REMEMBRANCES/ARRANGED BY J. HARRY SAVORY/J. M. DENT & CO., LONDON AND E. W. SAVORY, LTD. BRISTOL/1907.
Bound in coarse linen with green cloth straps around the back and one green tie strap at the front. This is an autograph album. Size of page is 8¾×9¾. A picture of a boy and a girl on the cover in colour. Two drawings in black and white by Arthur Rackham and many other pictures by various artists. These two drawings had been printed before, one in the Haddon Hall Library and the other in The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch.
1908
THE ODD VOLUME/LITERARY AND ARTISTIC/EDITED BY B. W. MATZ/PUBLISHED IN AID OF THE/FUND OF THE NATIONAL/BOOK TRADE PROVIDENT SOCIETY/[drawing]/LONDON: SIMPKIN, MARSHALL./HAMILTON, KENT AND CO. LTD./1908.
Bound in red wrappers with black lettering and a portrait of “A Fine Old English Gentleman” by C. E. Brock pasted on the cover. 95 numbered pages, 7¼×9½. One full-page drawing in half-tone by Rackham from The Ingoldsby Legends. Illustrations by various artists, and stories, poems, etc., by various authors.
