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. 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. Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick, p.236. 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). Share Robert Herrick quotations about giving, eyes and heart. Top page edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Ornately illustrated with gilt Art Nouveau style design to front boards and spines. was first published in 1648 and was viewed by Herrick as his "definitive life's work" (ODNB). Robert Herrick / Alfred Pollard (Ed.) Condition: Very Good Plus. 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. First edition thus, one of 260 copies only, printed on Mayday 1903.
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