Item #089482 POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL. Charles Ricketts, John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley.

POEMS DRAMATIC AND LYRICAL.

[First and Second Series]. In two volumes. First Series: With illustrations by C. S. Ricketts. Pp. xiv+212+[2](colophon, verso blank), frontispiece and 5 plates with tissue guards (one depicting the author's bookplate, designed by William Bell Scott), the title page printed in red & black; light green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the upper board a trifle marked, corners very slightly rubbed; t.e.g., others uncut; upper hinge tender, short closed tear to first tissue guard, the pages slightly browned; Second Series: Pp. viii+160+16(publisher's catalogue), the title page printed in red & black; uniformly bound, but in a slightly darker green cloth than the earlier volume, and with no decoration to lower board; t.e.g., others uncut; occasional faint soiling; Elkin Matthews/John Lane, London, 1893; 1895. First trade editions, limited to 600 and 550 copies respectively. *As well as the illustrations in the first volume (described by Calloway, p. 15, as 'the last of Ricketts' works where the pictures are directly inspired by Pre-Raphaelite illustration, particularly Rossetti's, and by Durer'), Charles Ricketts designed the attractive binding for these volumes. The author, John Byrne Leicester Warren (1835-1895), was the third (and last) Baron de Tabley, and a close friend of Theodore Watts-Dunton. Item #089482

Price: $1,200.00