The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke. The Title-Page and Portrait Cut on the Wood by G. Raverat.

Published by London Philip Lee Warner publisher to The Medici Society Ltd, 1919

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Limited edition, number 27 of 1,000, printed in Riccardi font on handmade Riccardi Paper; 4to (225 x 160 mm); frontispiece wood-engraving of Brooke, engraved pictorial title, both by Raverat; later binding for Asprey in full navy blue morocco with decorative gilt panels to both boards of onlaid grey and gilt lilies, gilt lilies to spine, foliate gilt dentelles, all edges gilt; x, 156, [2]pp. Containing some of Brooke's best remembered poems, Tiare Hahiti and The Soldier, with its famous opening line, 'If I should die, think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England', as well as his longer poem Grantchester, with its equally famous ending: 'oh! yet Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?' Keynes 16.

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Title
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke. The Title-Page and Portrait Cut on the Wood by G. Raverat.
Author
BROOKE, Rupert.
Publisher
London Philip Lee Warner publisher to The Medici Society Ltd
Publication year
1919
Binding
Hardcover

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