Original black cloth, printed paper spine label, yapp edges. Top edge gilt, others uncut.
[n.d., 1892] · London:
by [Meynell, Wilfrid, editor]
London: The Leadenhall Press, Ltd., [n.d., 1892] Original black cloth, printed paper spine label, yapp edges. Top edge gilt, others uncut. . Octavo. Facsimile frontispiece. Spine label darkened, binding extremities lightly rubbed. A good copy of a fragile book. An anthology of poems about childhood, with contributions by Blake, Wordsworth, Browning, Emerson, Lowell, etc. This book is noteworthy as the earliest appearance in print of Francis Thompson, "…who has eluded Fame as long as Shelley did, but cannot elude it any longer." whose verse will come as 'the revelation of a new personality in Poetry, the last discovered of the Immortals'" (Meynell's preface).
(Inventory #: 14114)