
Poems. Specially Bound Issue (1923)
Book ID: 67794
Price: €450.00
Poems. London: T Fisher Unwin, [1923]. Third Edition, Tenth Issue. Title page printed in red and black. Publisher’s dark tan calf, spine and upper cover with Celtic style design blocked in brown, upper cover with green highlights. Light fading along upper margin of boards, otherwise a fine bright copy.
Alan Wade’s bibliography does not record this binding, which varies significantly from the usual blue-green cloth with Althea Gyles’s design. Wade notes that copies published during and after the war, when materials where scarce, continued using Gyles’s design, but blocked in blind, rather than gold.
The present copy discards Gyles’s design and employs a more expensive binding material, suggesting that perhaps a number of copies were bound for a deluxe or gift issue.
[Wade 100].
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