Cream cloth and pale orange boards, stamped in gilt, 133 pages, #455 of 520 copies on Rives paper designed by Bruce Rogers, with 29 full page sepia-toned gravure reproductions of original bronze portrait medallions, tissue.Very Good. Cover has rubbing, edge wear and worn corners. Heel of spine is chipped off. Front hinge is cracked. Very light foxing on endpapers and on a couple of pages. Overall inside pages clean and binding is tight.Twenty-nine authors are portrayed, including Bridges, Conrad, Hardy, Housman, Joyce, Meredith, Russell, Shaw, Stephens, Walpole, Wells, and Yeats.