The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse
first edition
(1918) · London
by RACKHAM, Arthur (illus)
London: William Heinemann, (1918). First edition, deluxe issue. One of 765 numbered copies signed by Rackham. This signed limited issue contains one extra color plate not found in trade issue. Bottom fore-tips bumped, one shallow dent in top-edge of front cover, back cover rubbed and discolored along the fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy. 4to, 9 color tipped-in plates and 52 b/w text illustrations, pictorial endpapers, original vellum-backed parchment over boards, lettered in gilt on the spine and front cover, t.e.g. Bottom fore-tips bumped, one shallow dent in top-edge of front cover, back cover rubbed and discolored along the fore-edge, otherwise a very good copy. (Inventory #: 22976)