Nymphidia and the Muses Elizium
Vale Press / Printed at the Ballantyne Press, 1896. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Item #665095
A wonderfully designed and printed work, in an edition of 210 copies printed in Vale type by the Ballantyne Press, for the Vale Press. See: Tomkinson. Sold by Messrs. Hacon & Ricketts at the sign of the Dial, lii Warwick Street, Regent Street, London. Measuring 6.125 x 9.25 in. 137pp. letterpress printed on Vale Press laid paper with watermark; title and first page of each poem within ornamental border and floriated initials done in woodcut by Charles Ricketts. Bound in quarter cream paper over decorative patterned paper boards (mouse and nut) designed by C. Ricketts. A nice copy, with a touch of minor wear to the boards, usual offsetting to the endsheets, else Very Good. Contents: Nimphidia. The Court of Fayrie; The Description of Elizium; The First Nimphall: Rodope and Dorida; 2nd: Lalus, Cleon and Lirope; 3rd: Doron, Naiis, Cloris, Claia, Dorilus, Cloe, Mertilla, Florimel; 4th: Cloris and Mertilla; 5th: Claia, Lelipa, and Clarinax; 6th: Silvius, Halcius, and Melanthus; 7th: Florimel, Lelipa, Naiis, and Codrus; 8th:Mertilla, Claia, and Cloris; 9th: Muses & Nimphs; 10thNaiis, Claia, Corbilus, and Satyre. // 'one of the most charming pieces of English fairy poetry.' Edited from the earliest sources/editions by John Gray.
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