Sketches in Verse (Signed copy)

Signed by author Henry Richard Dickinson, 1906, a collection of ghostly and romantic verse with tipped in illustrations

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Printing Details

Undated, c1906. First (and only) edition. Believed to be a small limited edition published for private circulation. Hardback, bound in the original red cloth with gilt titling to spine. Beveled edges. Fore-edge untrimmed, top edge gilt. 23 × 14.5cm, 121pp [1].

This copy dedicated and initialled by the author to the ffep, "Ernest Weber, with H.R.D's kind regards. Jan 29 / 06"

A collection of poems of ghosts (The Ghost at Shinglesea, The Rime of the Phantom Head), romances, comic verse etc, written by Liverpool born engraver Henry Richard Dickinson (1839–1917). All illustrations have been tipped in and many drawn specifically for this book. The impressive list of artists includes notable illustrators of the age: Alexander Stuart Boyd, Gordon Browne, Frank Dadd, Frederick Charles Dickinson (1876–1967, the author's son who became a successful commercial artist), Charles Dixon, William Hatherell, Henry Marriott Paget, A J Balliol Salmon, as well as the author's own contributions.

Condition

This copy is in good plus condition for age. There is a little bleeding from the binding to the top of the fore-edge, some sunning to the top edge of the front board and light rubbing. However, a rare book with no recorded copies in the British Library, COPAC etc.