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Boards Hard front and rear covers of a bound book which are covered in cloth, leather or paper.

Association Copy copy that belonged to someone connected with the author or the contents of a book.Armorial Used to describe a binding bearing the coat of arms of the original owner, or with bookplates incorporating the owner’s arms.Although the name contains the word “tint”, this is a black-and-white printing process aquatint plates can often be hand colored, however. By changing the areas of the plate that are exposed and the length of time the plate is submerged in the acid bath, the engraver can obtain fine and varying shades of gray that closely resemble watercolor washes. Aquatint Copperplate process by which the plate is “bitten” by exposure to acid.Bookplate.īeautiful condition, cloth and gilt perfect, with only a small stain in gutter of first few leaves. Apparently the only copies to escape destruction were those which had already been sold before the government confiscation. The police removed from Methuen and their printers 1,095 copies, all of which were destroyed, along with the original printing plates. Published in 2,527 copies, The Rainbow appeared on September 30, 1915, and on November 3 the entire edition “was seized by the police and declared obscene” (Drabble & Stringer, 317). “It was written in England, during the war, as ‘a kind of working up to the dark sensual or Dionysic or Aphrodistic ecstasy which actually bursts the world-consciousness in every individual” (De Grazia, 56-9). The Rainbow was the successor to Sons and Lovers, the novel that had gained Lawrence an international reputation. Housed in custom chemise and slipcase.įirst edition of Lawrence’s fourth novel, “his first real trouble with the problem of censorship” (Roberts & Poplawski), with four pages of advertisements dated “Autumn 1915.” An exceptionally fine copy. LAWRENCE’S THE RAINBOW, “SEIZED BY THE POLICE AND DECLARED OBSCENE,” AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY “A KIND OF WORKING UP TO THE DARK SENSUAL OR DIONYSIC… ECSTASY”: RARE FIRST EDITION OF D.H.