Satyrs and Sunlight. Being the Collected Poetry of Hugh McCrae. Illustrated and decorated by Norman Lindsay. With an Introduction by Thomas Earp
London, The Fanfrolico Press, 1928.
Quarto, xx (last blank), 176, [1] (colophon) pages, printed on Barcham Green's handmade paper (watermarked Charles I), with vignette illustrations plus 35 full-page plates (collotypes and gravures from drawings and etchings), all by Norman Lindsay.
Green leather (embossed with a shagreen pattern) lettered in gilt on the spine; gilt-blocked design of a satyr on the front cover; top edge gilt, others uncut; covers unevenly sunned (as usual) and a little stained; extremities bumped and rubbed; mild signs of age and handling; a good copy (internally excellent).
Number 461 of only 550 copies. '"Satyrs and Sunlight" was [originally] privately printed in an edition of a hundred copies in 1909, and published in 1911 by Lothian in cheap format, without illustrations and with some additional poems. "Columbine" was issued in an edition of twenty-five copies by Art In Australia in 1920; and in cheap format, without the frontispiece etching, by Angus and Robertson. "Idyllia" was privately printed in an edition of a hundred copies in 1923. Other poems have appeared in various Australian periodicals. Under the title "Satyrs and Sunlight", the present volume may be regarded as the first collected edition - as it is the first English edition - of McCrae's work' (from the lengthy introduction).
Item #127414
Price (AUD):
$550.00