The springtide of life. Poems of childhood. With a preface by Edmund Gosse. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

4to.

Orig. publ. green cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt and decor. gold tooled, decor. endpapers, top edge green (spine sl. rubbed).

First edition of this work by the English poet A.C. Swinburne (1837-1909), ill. with 8 full-page colour plates with tissue guards and 52 b/w in-text.