Accession number
PML 196178
Creator
AE, 1867-1935.
Published
New York and ; London : Published by John Lane, sign of the Bodley head, ©1897.
Credit line
Purchased on the Kenneth A. Lohf Fund for Poetry, 2015.
Notes
Library's copy has been illuminated by AE in the margins of Prelude and the title poem, comprising watercolor and pencil drawings of nude figures in pastoral settings. The author has also added watercolor scenic backgrounds to William Bradley's title-page arboreal image and colophon vignette.
"Printed for John Lane by Will Bradely [sic], Springfield, Mass., in August, Mdcccxcvii."--Colophon.
"Printed for John Lane by Will Bradely [sic], Springfield, Mass., in August, Mdcccxcvii."--Colophon.
Description
94 pages ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on front flyleaf: the illustrations in this copy were done by AE. himself. [signed] Ernest Boyd.
Provenance
Ernest Boyd (ownership inscription); with the ticket of Charles Romm, Collectors' Book Service, New York, on the rear paste-down.
Binding
Grey pictorial boards backed in linen with green paper spine label, both of which have been painted over in green; decorated on upper board with William Bradley's full-cover illustration of a female minstrel; Bradley's design has been partly colored (presumably by AE) in yellow, orange, and green.
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