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BRANGWYN, Sir Frank

Belgium, with text by Hugh Stokes and an introduction by M. Paul Lambotte
London
Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & co
1916
€90 - €140

4to, 144 pages, with 52 woodcut illustrations. On Japanese paper. Publisher's vellum binding (clean silk closing laces partially lacking), top edge gilt, title gilt on spine. Limited edition of 160 copies, this is copy n° 14, signed by the artist

Of the three sister towns of Flanders, Ghent, Antwerp, and Bruges, the third is the most fascinating, the most beautiful, and the most mysterious. [...] Bruges-la-Morte is a misnomer. [...] But Bruges can never die