Sharp mrs william ed (3 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. 67 pages. n.d. (1909). 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st edition, no d/j, green clothbound boards, gilt design and titling on cover, black titling on spine; text block firm, , with some light foxing; 12 tipped-in colour plates v.g. 18mo (170 x 100 / 6_"" x 4""). A collection of brief reflections on the natural world arranged (and illustrated with 12 tipped-in colour plates) by month by Fiona MacLeod (the pseudonym of Scottish poet and biographer William Sharp). Published posthumously by Sharp's wife.…

Zustand: Very Good +. London: William Heinemann, 1921. Reprint, Volume V of the Uniform Edition of Sharp's Selected Writings. Octavo. 484pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt; top edge gilt. No dust jacket. Light edgewear and minor bumping to bottom corners. Binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good or better copy. Includes "Madge O' the Pool: A Thames Etching" and "The Birth, Death and Resurrection of a Tear" among many other poems and "prose imaginings.".…

First edition. 8vo. 190x125mm. pp. xx, 419 [1bl]. Original blue cloth with an illustration in gilt by Phoebe Traquair on the upper cover (her monogram is at the bottom right corner of the cover). Spine lettered and illustrated in gilt. The frontispiece was also designed by Traquair. Some fading to spine and bumping and wear to head and foot of spine and rubbing to corners. Endpapers chipped at the front inner gutter but otherwise a very nice copy of an important collection of women's writing by Elizabeth Sharp. She makes clear in the preface that this anthology has been a labour of love but there is no doubting her intention to address the fact that "our women-poets had never been collectively represented with anything like adequate justice". This was Sharp's first book: she went on to publish numerous anthologies and historical works and was a leading figure in the Celtic revival. Phoebe Traquair (1852-1936) was one of the leading figures in the Arts and Crafts Movement producing large scale works such as her celebrated church murals in Edinburgh together with (in the Arts and Crafts spirit) more minor key ventures such as embroidery and, as here, book illustration. Greatly influenced by Ruskin and pre-Raphaelites her work has a gorgeous economy and sinuousness much in evidence on the cover of Sharp's anthology.…