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Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The deluxe issue, printed on handmade watermarked paper and limited to 250 copies. 8vo. 199pp. Brown buckram lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Some light partial toning to the endpapers. A virtually fine copy. No dust wrapper. A hefty selection of verse by Rupert Brooke ('The Old Vicarage, Grantchester'), Lascelles Abercrombie, Gordon Bottomley, G. K. Chesterton, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, John Drinkwater, J. L. Flecker, W. W. Gibson, D. H. Lawrence, John Masefield, T. Sturge Moore, James Stephens and others. Originally published in 1912 (the very first book printed under the Poetry Bookshop imprint), this deluxe issue was produced in a uniform set with Georgian Poetry numbers 1-4, all published in 1923 and each volume limited to 250 copies. There is no change to the contents of any of the volumes, but the bibliographies have been updated to reflect subsequent publications. Woolmer A1b.

Hardback. Condición: Near fine. No jacket. First edition. First edition. Medium 8vo. Pp. xiv, 191, [1]. Quarter-bound cream cloth over patterned tan orange and white boards, printed paper title label to upper cover. Tissue-guarded colour frontis, plus 11 full-page illustrations (some in colour) by Katherine Cameron, Jessie M. King, Phoebe Traquair, Cecile Walton et al., including a photographic portrait of Virginia Woolf. Comprising a print run of 2000 copies, 950 of which were bound in November 1926 in a white cloth spine (in five binding variants), and 50 in vellum, with this copy being the primary tan binding. A further 250 copies were bound in 1927, with the remaining 750 copies being pulped in June 1956. Sans the scarce Otto Schlapp-designed dustwrapper. Spine tanned, top edge dust soiled, signature to flyleaf, endpapers lightly foxed, else Near Fine. Edinburgh University Women's Union 21st anniversary issue. With the first appearance of Virginia Woolf's short sketch, 'A Woman's College from the Outside' (being a dropped episode from Jacob's Room), 'Two Unpublished Sketches' by Katherine Mansfield; additional contributions by Hilaire Belloc, W. H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, Hugh MacDiarmid, Edwin Muir, T. Sturge Moore et al. [Kirkpatrick & Clarke B6].

Around 70 items laid down on 36pp. of an 8vo. exercise book with ruled grey-paper pages, in quarter-binding with marbled boards with green cloth spine. With around eight more items loosely inserted. In good condition, lightly aged and worn. The present collection consists of various handbills and other printed communications (constitution and rules, notices and forms) issued by the Association, together with numerous cuttings relating to it, from provincial newspapers (Western Daily Press, Daily Bristol Times, Clifton Chronicle, Bristol Daily Post, Bristol Times and Mirror, Somerset Gazette, Dorset County Chronicle, Cheltenham Examiner), with the cuttings dated in manuscript. Among the Association's own printed communications is a long 'Appeal to the Friends of Peace', dated from London, August 1871, with others headed 'Progress of the Movement', 'Forms of Petition to the House of Commons in Favour of International Arbitration', 'Appeal for Petitions in Support of the Motion of Henry Richard, Esq., M.P.', 'Petition to Parliament in Favour of International Arbitration'. The item is from the papers of one of the Association's honorary secretaries, the Quaker pacifist Edmund Tolson Wedmore (1847-1920), and has a printed label on front cover carrying his ownership inscription in pencil: 'E. T. Wedmore | 11 Oakland Rd | Bristol'. Information regarding the International Arbitration Association is surprisingly hard to come by. It was closely associated with the Peace Society founded by the 'Apostle of Peace' Rev. Henry Richard, MP (1812-1888), and as might be expected received a good deal of Quaker support. There were branches throughout the United Kingdom. The earliest reference to it in The Times is in 1875, and it seems to have ceased to operate under the name by the end of the century. The object of the Association was, according to a printed card laid down on the front free endpaper, 'To urge the adoption of a permanent system of International Law, for the amicable settlement of International Disputes.' A fuller description of the Association's aims is given in the next item in the volume, a notice (2pp., folio) of a meeting held at the White Lion Hotel, Bristol, 16 January 1873, in the opening speech of the president, William Terrell: 'All who attended that meeting, he believed, were in favour of International Arbitration that was, they were in favour of avoiding warfare to the utmost of their ability, in favour of settling disputes by reason rather than by arms (applause), that they were in favour of avoiding the enormous expenses which nations were now put to, from the immense armaments that they were obliged to maintain. (Hear, hear.) What they wanted was to impress upon the Government the necessity of endeavouring to carry out the principles of Arbitration to systematise International Arbitration, and make it acceptable, not only to the people of England, but to the people of the whole world. They knew that International Arbitration, so far as this country this country was concerned, had probably saved us within the last year or two, the loss of millions of treasure (hear, hear) and the higher loss of millions of human beings who might otherwise be a blessing to their families and homes. (Applause.) The principles of International Arbitration had been fully vindicated in the way in which the Arbitration between the United States and ourselves had been carried out.'.