Scottsboro Limited. Cover and illustrations by Prentice Taylor. Tall narrow 4to, 18 pages; 21, on Rives hand-made paper; string-bound, canvas backed pictorial artist's board with hand-lettering on front cover, some very light rubbing and soil. New

Scottsboro Limited. Cover and illustrations by Prentice Taylor. Tall narrow 4to, 18 pages; 21, on Rives hand-made paper; string-bound, canvas backed pictorial artist's board with hand-lettering on front cover, some very light rubbing and soil. New York: Golden Stair Press, 1932 E3500-5000 Prentice Taylor's Original Mock-Up for this rare early Hughes work, apparently used as a proof before printing. The front cover with lithographed illustration and hand-lettered and bordered in red watercolor by Taylor. Each of the 4 lithographs that appeared in the finished product appear here twice with the weaker image canceled in pencil. Additionally, each page, consisting of a verse play and four poems by Hughes about the Scottsboro Boys, appears in cut and pasted mock-up usually over a version that has been hand-written, probably by Taylor and then set in type. The tips of the artist's boards are slightly worn, and there are a few smudges where one might expect with the gluing and pasting of such a piece. Golden Stair Press founded by Hughes and Taylor, was backed in part by writer-photographer Carl Van Vechten. Scottsboro Limited was originally issued in a large paper edition of only 30 copies, bound in boards and signed by both writer and artist. It was later issued in a wrappered edition. The large paper edition was once described by Hughes as 'the most beautiful book I have ever seen.' Dickinson, 7