"George Abraham Crawley (1864?1926) was a British artist, designer and purveyor of English taste. ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION complete in 2 volumes.Previously owned by George Abraham Crawley.Beautifully bound works of British poetry, full calf leather ruled in gilt, raised spine bands, elaborately stamped in gilt on spine, morocco spine labels titled in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.Bright and clean.Slightly rubbed at extremities and spine corners rubbed, handwritten names on bookplates on front pastedowns of George Abraham Crawley and May Crawley, touch of foxing to title pages. Spine and board edges toned, minor shelf wear to bottom edge, light scuffs and marks to boards, small ink mark to head of first blank else contents clean and bright, single gathering unopened, a very good copy. O'Kane, printed in Caslon Old Roman type. Rubrication and initials printed in red from designs by H. Original plain cloth-backed grey boards, titles in black to paper label to spine. Gertzman, Fantasy, Fashion and Affection: Editions of Robert Herrick's Poetry for the Common Reader, 1810-1968, 1986, #56. Johnson, Notes on the History of the Elston Press (1997) Jay A. This edition demonstrates the Elston Press "successfully working their way beyond the initial Kelmscott Press influence toward fully developing a unique style of its own, with O'Kane's illustrations and decorations now infused with a new artistic maturity, displaying a confident knowledge of renaissance bookmarking" (Johnson). was first published in 1648 and was viewed by Herrick as his "definitive life's work" (ODNB). Herrick's Hesperides, or, The Works both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. Her designs "complement Hesperides beautifully and reflect the qualities of equanimity, sweetness, delicacy, and youthful idyllic enjoyment of nature for which the period admired Herrick" (Gertzman, p. This finely produced edition of Herrick's poems features striking woodcuts designed by the co-runner of the Elston Press Helen Marguerite O'Kane. We will let readers explore this list’s many beauties on their own and only note that we selected it for its consonance with this late August time of “Time’s trans-shifting.First edition thus, one of 260 copies only, printed on Mayday 1903. Of Heaven, and hope to have it after all. I write of Groves, of Twilights, and I sing How Roses first came Red, and Lillies White. I sing of Time’s trans-shfiting and I write Of Balme, of Oyle, of Spice, and Amber-Greece. I sing of Dewes of Raines, and piece by piece I write of Youth, of Love, and have Accesseīy these, to sing of cleanly-Wantonnesse. Of Bride-grooms, Brides, and of their Bridall-cakes. I sing of May-poles, Hock-carts, Wassails, Wakes, I sing of Brooks, of Blossomes, Birds, and Bowers: Herrick gives this list the title “The Argument of His Book”: English poet Robert Herrick (1591-1674) is best known for his single, yet voluminous book of poems, Hesperides (1648), which includes such perennial favorites as “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” beginning with “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” and “Delight in Disorder.” The collection is less well known for being, according to the Poetry Foundation, “the only major collection of poetry in English to open with a versified table of contents”: that is, with a list.
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