A facsimile edition of the 'little anthology' of favourite poems compiled and illustrated by Rex Whistler in 1923. This is a personal collection, hand-written and embellished, by a young artist who had recently discovered poetry. Rex Whistler was just eighteen and in his first year at the Slade when he began to compile it, using an ordinary ruled exercise book to keep his handwriting straight. The poems are well known and well loved, the watercolours are enchanting. Every page shows Rex Whistler's new-found delight in verse ...
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A facsimile edition of the 'little anthology' of favourite poems compiled and illustrated by Rex Whistler in 1923. This is a personal collection, hand-written and embellished, by a young artist who had recently discovered poetry. Rex Whistler was just eighteen and in his first year at the Slade when he began to compile it, using an ordinary ruled exercise book to keep his handwriting straight. The poems are well known and well loved, the watercolours are enchanting. Every page shows Rex Whistler's new-found delight in verse of a romantic kind: Keats, Marvell, de la Mare, Emily Dickinson, Shelley, Tennyson, Gray, Edith Sitwell and others. But, though serious about the poems, he could not, being Rex Whistler, deny himself flippancy on a title page, or in a pencilled comment added to Keats' woebegone knight-at-arms. Whistler made this earliest of all his illustrated books for his own pleasure. It was first published, in an abbreviated edition, in 1981, almost sixty years after Whistler compiled it, and has long been out of print. This splendid new edition, an exact facsimile of the original, is alive with the youthful pleasure that first inspired the brightly coloured fantasies of 1923. A separate booklet includes Laurence Whistler's afterword to the 1981 edition, a new introduction by Hugh and Mirabel Cecil, and a note from the publishers describing the process of producing the facsimile.
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First edition (hardback). 12mo (16cm by 13cm), [72pp]. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original blue cloth, dustwrapper. The book and the dustwrapper are in very good condition (dustwrapper price-clipped). ISBN 0241106672.
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Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 16mo-over 5¾-6¾" tall. 1st Printing. Fine in very good jacket with some natural age-darkening to white background. No markings or bookplates. No jacket chips or tears and not price-clipped. Illustrated in full colour throughout.
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Very good in fine dust jacket. Hbk 1st edition square 16mo illustr throughout watercolor and pen-and-ink drawings poems Jonson, Keats; Poe, Tennyson, Shakespeare, Dickinson et al gift inscription on front endpaper (Christmas, 1981) otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy in sleeve-protected dj.
