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Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Gilt decorated black cloth boards are well-bound, some rubbing & bumping of spine ends & corners, light soil from age & handling. Rough-cut pages are not all cut. Light foxing throughout, in margins. All illustrations present. Clarke, Harry (ilustrador).

Hardback. Condición: Good. Hard Cover. The Bodley Head, London 1928. 1st Edition. Book condition: G - Good. Black & White illustrations. Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. With Illustrations and Decorations by Harry Clarke and an Introduction by Humbert Wolfe. London: The Bodley Head, 1928 & New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. First Edition. Pp xxvi, 217, uncut, top edge in gilt. Maroon buckram, with title and decoration in gilt on upper cover and on spine. Cloth faded & at head & tail of spine, lacks dust jacket. Contents pages in nice bright condition. The eleven plates of this work are considered to be the most erotic of Harry Clarke's work. After publication Herbert Wolfe disassociated himself from the work. He objected strenuously to Clarke's illustrations, depicting his erotic interpretation of the poems. Wolfe, an Italian-born British poet, was one of the most popular British authors of the 1920s. Harry Clarke was one of Ireland's greatest, and most controversial, modern artists. Emerging during the later phases of the literary and dramatic movement known as the Celtic Revival, he joined the ranks of literary greats W. B. Yates, J. M. Synge and Sean O'Casey in shaping the international reputation of Ireland as a modern sovereign state 217 pages. Size: 7" x 10" (170mm x 250mm). (2). Harry Clarke (ilustrador). …

, no.277 of a limited edition of 300, signed by Christopher Sandford, printed on F.J. Head's hand-made paper, 112 pages, woodcuts throughout Limited Edition , light rubbing to boards and spine ends, spine faded, internally clean, binding firm, small bookseller's label to rear pastedown, very good condition , quarter morocco, patterned cloth, gilt titles to spine , 27 cm x 17 cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…

, 47 [1] pages, no. 238 of a 300 copy limited edition. SIGNED by Christopher Sandford, numerous black and white in text illustration and plates throughtout First Edition , the book is a little faded at head and foot edge of boards, green colouring to spine has faded to brown, book plate of Michael Raymond William Charles Holmes T.O.S.F tipped to upper pastedown, binder's mark to upper pastedown, very good condition , quarter bound green morocco under orange cloth with dark green cockerel design, gilt lettering to spine, gilt head edge to text block , octavo, 26.5cm x 17cm Hardback SIGNED by Christopher Sandford ISBN.…