[Private Press] Shining Grass

Webb, Elisabeth Holden. Shining Grass. Gramercy Park Press, 1926. Limited to 150 copies, hand-printed by Webb ("printer and scribe" in the colophon) in Caslon type at 15 Gramercy Park (i.e., The National Arts Club). Printed on one side of double leaves, folded once in Japanese style. String-tied cotton paper stock wrapper with illuminated cover illustration. Webb exhibited "Illuminated and Hand-Painted Texts by Elizabeth [sic] Holden Webb" at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1915 and an illuminated wedding service book on vellum in an Arts Club Members' Show ("American Art News", vol. 19, no. 9, December 11, 1920). Some light marks to covers, pages browned. Measures approx. 5" x 5.5". Two holdings listed in OCLC; one at Brown College, one at Wellesley College.