John Donne; Henry King; et al. — The Week-End Book

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1929. Cloth. A lovely copy of this colourfully illustrated anthology of poetry, plays and more from the 1920s, published by Nonesuch Press. The 12,000th hundred. First published in 1924, going through 21 editions to 1929 due to its immense popularity. Illustrated with a colour illustrated title page and fourteen colour plates by Albert Rutherston.This anthology includes a variety of poems, songs, and articles, such as 'Hate Poems' and 'State Poems', along with pieces on law, food, birdsong, and first aid. With blank spaces to the rear for the owner's own poems, recipes and games. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. In the publisher's original cloth. Externally lovely with only slight offsetting to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages with the odd minor spot. Near Fine . Ill.: Albert Rutherston. Near Fine .