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DARTON, E.L - ed by: : POEMS FROM ROBERT HERRICK

LONDON.WELLS GARDNER,DARTON & CO.LTD.,nd,c1915?

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UK,16mo HB,no dw/dj,as issued(?),1st edn. [Nd, copyright 1915 recto of title-page.] VG+.Child's inked name [Elisabeth] in childish-hand,with an adult-hand,pencil dated,gift inscrptn - to a different named girl,Barbara - dated 3.xii.26,to ffe.No dw/dj - as issued? Blue cloth bds with a charming,period,colour pictorial onlay by Charles Robinson - girl in Edwardian style floral dress,kneeling,picking flowers in a field with trees and clouds to horizon. Cloth bds around the rectangular onlay are 2 colour block (yellow+black) ink-stamped design with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to upper bd, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip slightly dulled. Negligible shelf-wear with some minimal bumping+rubbing to corners,some light rubbing to bd's edges,all edges gilt(aeg). Front eps inscribed, pencil+ink - as explained - and minimally foxed/spotted - as usual/normal,rear eps only minimally foxed/spotted - contents bright,tight and generally clean.UK,16mo [approx 6.3/8" tall x 5" wide]HB,no dw/dj,as issued,1st edn,vi-xipp+2-109pp [paginated] +5pp publisher adverts to rear includes half- title+title pages,colour pictorial frntis - repeated from bd's onlay - by Charles Robinson,contents+illus lists/tables, 2 colour illus and 3 b/w line illus - all by C.Robinson,67 Herrick poems,25 other poems from Herrick's contemporaries [featuring Andrew Marvell, Sir John Suckling, Richard Crashaw, Abraham Cowley, George Wither, Richard Lovelace, Sir William Davenant, William Habington, Henry King, Ben Johnson and James Shirley],notes,index of words, phrases.Title in The Children's Poets series,ed by E.L. Darton,uniform with this volume are Mary Macleod: THE RED-CROSS KNIGHT AND SIR GUYON, F.J. HARVEY DARTON:PILGRIM'S TALES with other volumes in preparation at that date. Uncommon,the poems in this collection are taken from the famous book "Hesperides" and "Noble Numbers". Charles Robinson(1870-1937),born in Camden Town, son of wood engraver and magazine illustrator Thomas Robinson, and brother of W.Heath Robinson and T.Heath Robinson.Apprenticed to the lithographers, Waterlow and Son.Inadequate funds prevented him from studying at the Royal Academy Schools,where he obtained a place, but he was able to attend evening classes at the West London Art School and at Heatherley's School of Art.From 1892,he worked as a freelance illustrator, based on his father's studio in the Strand.He joined the very talented group of young artists then working for John Lane at The Bodley Head,and his b/w illustrated edition of R.L. Stevenson's 'A Child's Garden of Verses' (1895) had an immediate success: he subsequently illustrated well over 100 books mostly for children.He was basically a self-trained illustrator, and his work has freedom and originality linked with a real feeling for book design that makes it outstanding.His b/w illustration reflects the influence of Beardsley and Walter Crane,and his watercolour illustrations have delicacy and sensitivity, greatly helped by the introduction of the four colour process early in the century as the alternative to lithography.By incorporating lettering into the page design,and in his planning of the book as a whole,he developed the Arts and Crafts tradition of the book as a work of art. Please contact seller,because of the small size,light weight and value of this item, for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,16mo HB,no dw/dj(as issued?),1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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