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Reprint. Soft cover chapbook, 16mo, (3 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches), in blue card decorated wraps with yapp edges over art paper, with applied portion of Cameron's painting "Down the Sun Dropt, Large and Red, on the Towers of Linteged," with the titles hand lettered in Glasgow Art Nouveau style. There are five color printed illustrations by Scottish Artist Katherine Cameron (1874-1965),a contemporary of Jessie M. King at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1890's, and a member of the "Glasgow Girls. " Cameron worked in book illustration, oils, watercolors and as a designer of textiles. First printed 1907, this is a later reprint, with a gift inscription from 1921 in fountain pen to the title page. Printed Neill and Company, Edinburgh. CONDITION: Very Good Minus, with soiling to rear of wraps, slight wear to spine and applied cover art. Inside, there is some light foxing, not affecting plates.Now in mylar. This is considered one of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's best lyric poems, a medieval love story of a brave woman's command of her emotions in a castle siege. Elfick and Harris, (1998) No. 47.
Ref: CHAP 9057
$45.00