The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood. With a preface by Edmund Gosse.

RACKHAM, Arthur (illus.); SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles.

Published by London: William Heinemann, 1918

About this Item

Signed limited edition, number 521 of 765 copies signed by the artist. This edition includes an additional colour plate that is not present in the trade edition. It depicts Swinburne as Pan addressing a group of children beneath a typically Rackhamesque tree. A contemporary review in The Bookman states, "Arthur Rackham has caught the very spirit and changing moods of the poems very happily in his delicately finished series of colour pictures, and his many little sketches of children, scattered through its pages as head- and tail-pieces, add much to the charm of one of the most beautiful gift-books." Latimore & Haskell pp. 48-49; Riall, p. 133. The Bookman, December 1918. Quarto. Colour frontispiece and 8 colour plates tipped-in on thick brown paper, with captioned tissue guards, black and white illustrations in the text, all by Rackham. Original vellum-backed cream-coloured boards, spine and front cover lettered and illustrated in gilt, illustrated endpapers, top edge gilt. Lower corners bumped, light consistent soiling to binding, browning to free endpapers: a very good copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood. With a preface by Edmund Gosse.
• Publisher: London: William Heinemann, 1918
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)