The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmind Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. (1926).

Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) & Arthur Rackham (Illustrator; 1867-1939).

Published by Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1926. (Printed at The Complete Press West Norwood London). 1926 American reprint., 1926

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7 1/2 in. x 10 in., half-title; color frontispiece; title-page printed in green and black, with Rackham designs; preface (by editor, Edmund Gosse); contents, list of plates. [i]-[x], pp. 1-[133]; illustrated with 8 full-page color plates, each with a title-printed tissue guard, and 60, various sized black & white drawings, or designs, many used as head or tail-pieces. Green cloth with titling gilt on the spine and front cover; endpapers designed by Arthur Rackham; top-edge stained gray-green. The upper cover corners are bumped, light age-related tanning to the endpapers, small tear to the inner hinge at the front endpaper gutter. Small adhesion of the tissue guard to the plate margin (at p. 98), not affecting the image. Text and plates are generally clean. The 1926 American reprint. The orginal edition was in 1918. (See Latimore & Haskell, Rackham Bibliography, 1936; pp. 48-49 for the 1918 edition). "As the close of his life approached, Swinburne frequently expressed his intention to extract from his various volumes those poems which were addressed to children, or were descriptive of child life, and to publish them in a separate collection. He died without having found occasion to carry out this plan, and he left no directions with regard to the way in which it ought to be done. [-] One reason why Swinburne never brought out such a collection was his failure to find an artist who could interpret to his satisfaction the simplicity and freshness of his verses. We are fortunate in having secured, in Mr. Arthur Rackham, one whose delicate and romantic fancy is in sensitive harmony with Swinburne's, and who understands, no less than he did, how 'Heaven lies about us in our infancy.' Edmund Gosse."(-From the Preface, pp. v-vi).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Springtide of Life. Poems of Childhood by Algernon Charles Swinburne. With a Preface by Edmind Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. (1926).
• Publisher: Garden City New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1926. (Printed at The Complete Press West Norwood London). 1926 American reprint.
• Publication Date: 1926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket