The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood

Swinburne, Algernon Charles [Illustrated by Arthur Rackham]

Published by London William Heinemann 1918, 1918

About this Item

1st Trade Edition. ix,132pp. Large octavo with green cloth boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on front and spine, and endpapers with green pattern. Colour illustrated frontispiece and seven coloured plates. Very small bookseller's stamp on front pastedown. Board corners and edges, and spine edges have mild wear. Back endpaper has some foxing. very good Sixteen poems from Noble Prize nominee and English writer, Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems have been collected from Swinburne's various works and all have overarching themes of children or childhood life. With a preface by Edmund Gosse and eight lovely full page illustrations from Arthur Rackham. Seller Inventory # 136398

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood

Publisher: London William Heinemann 1918

Publication Date: 1918

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: very good

Edition: 1st Edition