The Springtide of Life (Rackham illus)

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SKU: 2L98PU

Condition: D/w clean/bright, minor chipping to top of spine. Bumped right corner of ft cover, few white spots. Unusual bookplate on ffep

Author: Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Illustrator: 8 colour plates, incl the frontispiece, and 52 line decorations by Arthur Rackham

Folio/Binding: Publisher's original green cloth with gilt titles and illustration to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper

Place of Publication: London

Publisher: William Heinemann

Edition: 1st edition

Pages: ix [1] 134 pp

Publication Date: 1918

Signed: -

Format: Crown 4to

Description:

As the close of his life approached, Swinburne often expressed his desire to extract from his various volumes those poems addressed to children. He died without doing so. Edmund Gosse brought together this collection of Swinburne's poems which are concerned with infancy. Rackham's delicate and romantic illustrations are a perfect complement to the text. 8 colour plates plus b/w text decorations. D/w clean/bright, minor chipping to top of spine. Bumped right corner of ft cover, few white spots. Unusual Celtic designer bookplate on ffep, slight cockling to the top of first 20 pages of the book, o/w VG in a nr F d/w.