ROBINSON, W. Heath (1872-1944) "A Widow's Weeds" initial signed (lower right) pen-and-ink on illustration card (some light soiling at edges not affecting image), matted and framed 8¾ x 6½ in. (223 x 165 mm), sheet size Robinson's drawing was used as a full-page illustration facing the poem "A Widow's Weeds" in the London, 1916 edition of Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie , p.87 (also used in the New York, 1929 edition, p.86). [ With: ] DE LA MARE, Walter. Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes . London: Constable and Co., 1913. 8 o. Original blue cloth, gilter-lettered on front cover and spine, uncut (a few minor spots on front cover, slightly worn at ends of spine). Provenance : John Freeman English poet and essayist, 1880-1929 (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with a holograph poem entitled "The Song of Shadows" inscribed to Freeman on the front free endpaper. The poem of comprised of 16 lines, with the presentation at the end: "With all rememberances to John Freeman from his friend W.J. dlm." Their friendship commencing in 1907, de la Mare was instrumental in getting Freeman published in the Georgian Poetry series, a group of anthologies edited by Edward Marsh and with contributions by Rubert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence among others.[ And with: ] Another edition. New York, 1929. 8 o. Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Cloth; dust jacket. (3)
ROBINSON, W. Heath (1872-1944) "A Widow's Weeds" initial signed (lower right) pen-and-ink on illustration card (some light soiling at edges not affecting image), matted and framed 8¾ x 6½ in. (223 x 165 mm), sheet size Robinson's drawing was used as a full-page illustration facing the poem "A Widow's Weeds" in the London, 1916 edition of Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie , p.87 (also used in the New York, 1929 edition, p.86). [ With: ] DE LA MARE, Walter. Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes . London: Constable and Co., 1913. 8 o. Original blue cloth, gilter-lettered on front cover and spine, uncut (a few minor spots on front cover, slightly worn at ends of spine). Provenance : John Freeman English poet and essayist, 1880-1929 (presentation inscription). FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with a holograph poem entitled "The Song of Shadows" inscribed to Freeman on the front free endpaper. The poem of comprised of 16 lines, with the presentation at the end: "With all rememberances to John Freeman from his friend W.J. dlm." Their friendship commencing in 1907, de la Mare was instrumental in getting Freeman published in the Georgian Poetry series, a group of anthologies edited by Edward Marsh and with contributions by Rubert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence among others.[ And with: ] Another edition. New York, 1929. 8 o. Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Cloth; dust jacket. (3)
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