THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE. Poems of Childhood

Swinburne, Algernon Charles. Preface by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, 1918

About this Item

1st edition thus, 1918. A Good+ copy. 4to., 132 pp., 8 full page illustrated plates with tissue guards, bound in publishers green cloth with titles in gilt on front cover and spine. Overall minor wear and soiling to cloth with some rubbing at tips, edges and top/base of spine. Previous owners name inside front cover. End pages foxed, paper is age toned. Text appears unmarked. Previous owner signature of Isadore Leighton Luce, Smith College April 1922. Isadore Smith (1902-1985) who published as Ann Leighton, was born in Portsmouth, N.H., graduated from Smith College in 1923, and married Archibald William Smith (1897-1962), a veteran of the First World War. Their home on Argilla Road in Ipswich overlooked Fox Creek. Col. Smith was the author of two books, A captain departed, (New Haven, Yale University Press, (published 1935) and A gardener s book of plant names; a handbook of the meaning and origins of plant names. (New York, Harper & Row, (published 1963). Seller Inventory # 35721

Bibliographic Details

Title: THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE. Poems of Childhood

Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia

Publication Date: 1918

Binding: Cloth

Illustrator: Arthur Rackham

Condition: Good+

Edition: 1st edition.