Sales catalogue 444: Maggs Bros

Date:
1923
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/25
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 444: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2134 NEW NUMBERS. Nos. 1-4, February to December, 1914 (all pub- lished). FIRST EDITIONS. 4 Parts, ovzginal wrappers 1914. £5 5s *** Containing Poems, etc., by Rupert Brooke, W. W. Gibson, Lascelles Abercrombie, John Drinkwater. 2135 NEWBOLT (Sir Henry). Drake’s Drum, and Other Songs of the Sea. With 12 full-page coloured illustrations by A. D. McCormick. FIRST EDITION. 4to, o72ginal decorative cloth. London, N.D. | | £3 3s *** Presentation Copy from the Author, with inscription on fly-leaf :— ier OU Henry Newbolt. January, 192174 21360 ———— Imogen (a Lady of a tender age). Autograph Poem Signed. Comprising 3 verses of eight lines each and contained on 14 pp., 4to. Dated at end 16th November, 1896, and signed ‘‘ H. N.”’ £3 10s The original autograph MS. of a charming poem which was printed in ‘* Longman’s Magazine,” January, 1897. It commences :— “ Ladies, where were your bright eves glancing Where were they glancing yesternight? Saw ye Imogen dancing, dancing; Imogen dancing all in white? Laughed she not with a pure delight, Laughed she not with a joy serene, Stepped she not with a grace entrancing Slenderly girt in silken sheen?” Ete. WITH ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. 2137 ———— The Island Race. FIRST EDITION. Post 8vo, mew buckram, uncut. London, 1808. £5 5s *** UNIQUE COPY, having bound up in duplicate, the Author’s Original Manuscript for the Title, Dedication, Contents, and the Verse of four lines :— *O Strength Divine of Roman Days O Spirit of the Age of Faith Go with our Sons on all their ways When we long since are dust and wraith.”