GUTHRIE, James. The Elf, A Sequence of Seasons. London: W.H. Broome at the Old Bourne Press, Spring 1902-June 1903. 3 vols. [only, of 4.] Limited editions of 250 copies only, these out-of-series and two of them signed and inscribed by James Guthrie, small 4to (176 x 133mm.) Colour and monochrome plates, tissue-guards, coloured endpapers. (Mild toning.) Original cloth-backed pictorial boards (minor stain to upper cover of ‘Spring’, toned). Note: lacking the ‘Winter’ volume. ‘Spring’ is signed by Guthrie ‘To my friend ‘addy’… some things we have thought together are in this poor book of mine’. The ‘Autumn’ issue is also inscribed by Guthrie to ‘A.D.C.’ [‘Addy’]. Provenance: James Guthrie (ink inscribed to ‘Addy’ on the initial blanks); ‘Flossie’ (‘Spring’ ink inscribed from ‘Addy’; F.M.S. (‘Autumn’ ink inscribed from ‘Addy’). – And a related volume (P.J. Miller’s ‘The Wreath’, published by The Pear Tree Press, 1911, small 4to) (4).