ANSELL, EVELYN — Twenty-Five Poems

Hemingford Grey: The Vine Press, 1963. 1st Edition. First Printing. Leather. Illustrated by Diana Bloomfield. Full green leather with Diana Bloomfield's gilt swan motif to front board, gilt lettering on spine, gilt decorated dentelles with 'star' motif, silk marbled endpapers specially made by Douglas Cockerell and Son. This is one of only ten specially bound copies of the total of 100 printed, printed on 'perhaps the last of the paper made by J. Batchelor for William Morris'. Illustrated with 6 tissue-guarded wood engravings by Diana Bloomfield. Signed by Evely Ansell on the tissue-protected final page of texxt. The last book published by John Peters and Peter Foster of The Vine Press.. The green leather has been sunned to brown on the spine and edges of both covers; there is some soiling along the top edge of the ffep and on the extreme edges of the fore-edges, there is one pencilled bibliographic note on the reverse of the rfep; else fine.. Wood engravings. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 33 (1) pages. Signed by Author. Very Good in No DJ As Issued dust jacket .