The springtide of life, poems of childhood, by Algernon Charles Swinburne; with a preface by Edmund Gosse; illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Author
Swinburne, Algernon Charles, 1837-1909 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, London, W. Heinemann, 1918.
Description
ix,132, [2] p. illus.,8 col.pl. 26 cm.

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Illus
Notes
  • Illustrated t.-p. in colors; ornamented end-papers.
  • Printed in Great Britain.
  • "Selected from ... Poems and ballads, second series (1878), Tristam of Lyonesse and other poems (1882), A century of roundels (1883), and Poems and ballads, third series (1889)" supplemented by the "cycle of poems called ʻA dark month.ʾ" cf. Pref.
  • With tissue guard sheets printed in red. This edition has the name of J. B. Lippincott Company stamped in the spine, and printed on the front and spine of the dustjacket.
  • Princeton copy 2 Imperfect: jacket browned and brittle, stained with losses, internally good.
  • Princeton copy 1 No. 590 of an edition of 765 copies signed Arthur Rackham.
  • Princeton copy 1 Contains book-plate of Edward Wright Sheldon.
Binding note
Princeton copy 2 Pub. dark green cloth stamped in black, buff pictorial dust jacket printed in red and dark green, with white pictorial endpapers printed in green.
References
Latimore & Haskell, Rackham, p. 49.
LCCN
19026086
OCLC
1729227
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