BROOKE, Rupert; [RICCARDI PRESS]
The Collected Poems
London: Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society Ltd.. 1919
4to., beautifully rebound in full crushed maroon morocco, elaborately gilt inner dentelles; five raised bands to spine, titled in gilt to second compartment; upper edge gilt, else untrimmed; pp. [viii], vii-x, [iv], 5-156, [iv]; with wood-engraved portrait frontis behind mounted tissue guard; and title page vignette by G. Raverat; spine evenly sunned to brown, slightly extending to boards; very lightly rubbed at edges and bumped at corners; lightly offset to endpapers; outer edges slightly toned, but otherwise a sharp, clean copy internally.
First Riccardi Press edition, limited to 1000 handnumbered copies printed in the Riccardi fount on handmade Riccardi paper; this paper copy no. 42.
A collection of 92 poems by Rupert Brooke, the English poet who is best known today for his war poems and sadly short life. Published just four years after the poet’s death from septicaemia in 1915, this Riccardi Press edition follows just a handful of poetic volumes, and bears testament to Brooke’s enduring legacy. It contains some of his best-loved verses including ‘The Great Lover’, ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’, and of course ‘The Soldier’, which begins with the famous lines;
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.”
The engravings are provided by Gwen Raverat, one of the founding members of the society of Wood Engravers. Raverat had met Brooke while at Cambridge, and quickly became one of his closest friends within the Bloomsbury group as well as Brooke’s own circle, named by Virginia Woolf the ‘Neo-Pagans’.
A handsome edition of Brooke’s poems, rather splendidly bound.
BROOKE, Rupert; [RICCARDI PRESS]
The Collected Poems
London: Philip Lee Warner, The Medici Society Ltd.. 1919
4to., beautifully rebound in full crushed maroon morocco, elaborately gilt inner dentelles; five raised bands to spine, titled in gilt to second compartment; upper edge gilt, else untrimmed; pp. [viii], vii-x, [iv], 5-156, [iv]; with wood-engraved portrait frontis behind mounted tissue guard; and title page vignette by G. Raverat; spine evenly sunned to brown, slightly extending to boards; very lightly rubbed at edges and bumped at corners; lightly offset to endpapers; outer edges slightly toned, but otherwise a sharp, clean copy internally.
First Riccardi Press edition, limited to 1000 handnumbered copies printed in the Riccardi fount on handmade Riccardi paper; this paper copy no. 42.
A collection of 92 poems by Rupert Brooke, the English poet who is best known today for his war poems and sadly short life. Published just four years after the poet’s death from septicaemia in 1915, this Riccardi Press edition follows just a handful of poetic volumes, and bears testament to Brooke’s enduring legacy. It contains some of his best-loved verses including ‘The Great Lover’, ‘The Old Vicarage, Grantchester’, and of course ‘The Soldier’, which begins with the famous lines;
If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.”
The engravings are provided by Gwen Raverat, one of the founding members of the society of Wood Engravers. Raverat had met Brooke while at Cambridge, and quickly became one of his closest friends within the Bloomsbury group as well as Brooke’s own circle, named by Virginia Woolf the ‘Neo-Pagans’.
A handsome edition of Brooke’s poems, rather splendidly bound.
