| Item Description: | One of the Cushing Library/Lit./Thomas copies has the bookplate of David Garnett (Hilton Hall Huntingdon), is inscribed on the title page "Sent me by the author Edward Thomas See his letter of October 19, 1916 [signed] Edward Garnett", is unnumbered, and contains a pull of the title page illustration.
One of the Cushing Library/Lit./Thomas copies has a bookseller's description which states, "Of the edition, Eckert notes that 'There are variations in size and in colour - each book is usually done in two colours - and there may be copies varying in the collation between the first and second states.' The present copy is such a variant: it is printed using two colors, but it comprises fourteen leaves, as called for in the first state; but these leaves are handmade paper, as called for in the second state, rather than 'Jap vellum' which was used in the first state; in addition, the pagination or placement of the illustrations and text, varies: in this copy, the full length illustration appears on p. 7 rather than on p. 9; and as in the first state, there is no illustration on p. 17. The present copy is presumably a later, mixed state of the book, a not unusual phenomenon as most copies we have seen represent variant states of the book. Eckert notes that 'Each copy is signed by James Guthrie', this copy is not so signed. Of peculiar interest is the fact that the book is preserved in a grey cloth folding box, which bears labels printed at the Pear Tree Press and may have been made there. On the cover is the half-title label, which is also used on the front wrapper of the book; and on the inside of the box is another, larger label which notes: 'The book is printed for subscribers from the plates: plain 10/6 each, or coloured, on larger paper, One Guinea.' From the library of Simon Nowell-Smith, with a card with his annotations laid in, in a green half-morocco folding box" and is number 73 of 100. |
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