[Printed volume of poems; authorial inscription] Sappho The Queen of Song
Author:
[ J.R. Tutin, compiler; John Ramsden Tutin; illustrations from watercolours by Ernest H.R. 9Collings ]
Publication details:
T.N. Foulis, Edinburgh & London [c.1911].
£150.00
SKU: 16918
A collection of poems by various authors, arranged by J.R. Tutin. [84]pp., 8vo, 8 illustrations inc. frontispiece, buckram quarter binding, design embossed in gilt of wax cream paper covers. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper (recto)("Wm Lampton Doughty [...] 15.viii.19". INSCRIBED BY compiler on second free endpaper (recto) "Edward Lamplough from his old riend the Editor | J.R.T. | Xmas 1911". On verso, Sappho in Greek letters with short quote from Swinburne in Tutin's hand. Tutin's initials also on half-title. Some hinge strain, corners bumped, spine dulled, still a good-looking book. Tutin also published "A Concordance to Fitzgerald's Translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam".