The Library of an English Bibliophile, Part V

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Lot 65
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Johnson, Lionel

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
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Description

  • Johnson, Lionel
  • Poems. London: Elkin Mathews and (Boston:) Copeland & Day, 1895
  • paper
8vo (208 x 143mm.), FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 6 OF 25 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, publisher's devices on title page and at the end in red, original brown buckram lettered in gilt, green linen cloth jacket

Literature

Krishnamurti, The Eighteen-Nineties, no.369 (the 1/750 issue)

"His volume is like an old garden, every flower awakening charming reminiscences of unforgotten, half-forgotten, and perhaps quite forgotten, poets..." (Richard le Gallienne, quoted by G. Krishnamurti).

Catalogue Note

A VERY FINE COPY OF THE VERY SCARCE ISSUE WITH THE AUTOGRAPH COLOPHON.

Johnson's Poems is not only the highpoint of the author's career, confirming his reputation as a poet, but ONE OF THE KEY PUBLICATIONS OF THE 1890s.