Poems of Pleasure

1910, Ella Wheeler Wilcox's poems printed from an illuminated manuscript by Sangorski and Sutcliffe

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Printing Details

First thus. Hardback, bound in brown cloth with ornate gilt decoration to spine and upper board. Pages untrimmed to fore-edge, top edge gilt. 19.5 × 14cm, 85pp [3]

A delightful copy of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's Poems of Pleasure, her collection of poems that capture the joy of living that was first published in 1888. This volume reproduced from a hand-illuminated copy by the binders Sangorski and Sutcliffe, with frontispiece by Frank C Pape with gilt and floral illuminated border, repeated to the title page with tipped in title sheet. This is followed by the poems, each with a printed decoration or illuminated initials. The book is printed on thick hand-made paper.

Condition

There is light rubbing to the brown cloth, and light scattered foxing and tanning throughout but this remains a very attractive copy of a sought after edition. Previous owner's inscription to ffep, dated 1912. The inner binding is secure.