Some songs and verses.

WALLER, Edmund

€ 150 / 200

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Beschrijving lot

South Haring, Sussex, Pear Tree Press (under the supervision of James Guthrie, 26 June) 1902

8vo (pp. 11-12 missing).

Publisher's binding: half beige linen, grey paper boards, lettered label on front cover, flat spine.

Delicately illustrated throughout by Pickford Waller. Printed in capitals. Edition limited to 300 copies (n. 242).
The Pear Tree Press was founded in 1899 by James Guthrie (1845-1952), artist, poet and typographer, at Pear Tree Cottage (Ingrave, Essex). It was later moved to Shorne, South Haring and Flansham. It is one of the oldest private presses. Guthrie purchased the press on which William Morris printed his Chaucer type to print his own works. The earliest of Guthrie's endeavours on the other hand were printed at the Old Bourne Press.
Ref. Ransom, Pear Tree Press, 4.- Tomkinson, Pear Tree Press, 2.
Prov. Ex dono from Pickford Waller to "Madame [Marie] Rassenfosse with kind regards" (ms. note).