Accession number
PML 196100
Creator
Siordet, Gerald Caldwell, 1885-1917.
Published
[London : Privately printed, 1918?]
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2014.
Notes
Privately printed, possibly by Glyn Philpot for the author's family.
Book consists of a half-title page, frontispiece portrait, 6 pages of letterpress verse printed on the recto, 2 blank leaves, and 17 leaves of plates printed on clay-coated paper.
The sixth leaf of letterpress (untitled poem, first line: Jesus, in your Paradise) and conjoined 1st blank are on a smaller-sized sheet (20 cm) loosely laid in; with manuscript correction in ink inserting 'order' for 'do'.
Illustrations: 17 reproductions of line drawings comprised of studies, landscapes, and portraits of fellow soldiers and other men in head scarves; photogravure frontispiece shows a uniformed Siordet holding a monkey, autographed on the plate.
Book consists of a half-title page, frontispiece portrait, 6 pages of letterpress verse printed on the recto, 2 blank leaves, and 17 leaves of plates printed on clay-coated paper.
The sixth leaf of letterpress (untitled poem, first line: Jesus, in your Paradise) and conjoined 1st blank are on a smaller-sized sheet (20 cm) loosely laid in; with manuscript correction in ink inserting 'order' for 'do'.
Illustrations: 17 reproductions of line drawings comprised of studies, landscapes, and portraits of fellow soldiers and other men in head scarves; photogravure frontispiece shows a uniformed Siordet holding a monkey, autographed on the plate.
Description
23 numbered leaves, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 21 cm
Binding
Drab boards, backed in dark brown paper, issued in beige printed dust jacket (the author's name on front).
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