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Hard cover, tall 8vo in green buckram blocked with titles and vignette design in gold to front cover, in original cream dust jacket printed with renaissance borders in rust, titles in black to front, and further text to the rear of d/j (now in mylar). Notice on d/j: "Limited edition, printed on hand-made paper by The Chiswick Press." Top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. Colophon: Printed in Great Britain for Eyre & Spotiswoode (Publishers) Ltd.,14,15 &16 Bedford Street, London W. C. 2 at the Chiswick Press, London, N.11 and bound by Henry Stevenson & Co. Ltd., London, E. 2. 37 pp. with Limited Edition No. 209/1000. **CONDITION: Book is Near Fine, with some very minute pinpoint spots of foxing (?) Coloring to boards is a bit uneven. D/j is Very Good Plus, with one area to rear top edge having a residue seen in photo. Otherwise, it is very clean, with perhaps a small amount of darkening along front top edge.**This assortment of light comic verse, anagrams and the like was written by Sir Edward Howard Marsh, (1872-1953). Described as a polymath, Marsh was employed as the Private Secretary to Winston Churchill, following the fabled British prime minister through many of his postings during the first half of the twentieth century. In addition to his political work, however, Marsh had interests in the arts, variously as a collector of Old Master painitings, a contributor of articles to the Dictionary of National Biography, and as author of books about the Georgian Poets. He was the literary executor to the Bloomsbury Group-affiliated poet Rupert Brooke, publishing a well-regarded memoir in 1918.
Ref: POEMEW 9362
$35.00