first edition
1914 · Chelsea
by (ASHENDENE PRESS). BRIDGES, ROBERT
Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1914. FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 85 COPIES ON PAPER (and six on vellum), none of them for sale. 220 x 182 mm. (8 3/4 x 6 3/8"). 2 p.l. (first blank), 20 pp.
Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Hand-painted initials in red or blue. Three lines printed in red. Hornby 28; Franklin, p. 239. ◆Boards a little soiled, tiny chip to head of spine, but an excellent copy, the text clean, fresh, and bright, and the fragile original binding entirely solid.
One of 40 memorably beautiful Ashendene Press books issued between 1895 and 1935, this is a collection of poems composed during the year Bridges was named Poet Laureate. (truncated)
Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Hand-painted initials in red or blue. Three lines printed in red. Hornby 28; Franklin, p. 239. ◆Boards a little soiled, tiny chip to head of spine, but an excellent copy, the text clean, fresh, and bright, and the fragile original binding entirely solid.
One of 40 memorably beautiful Ashendene Press books issued between 1895 and 1935, this is a collection of poems composed during the year Bridges was named Poet Laureate. (truncated)