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Thomas Campion; John Gray; Charles S Ricketts; Vale Press. Fifty Songs by Thomas Campion. Ballantyne Press; Hacon & Ricketts, 1896.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Publisher's blue boards. Hardcover. Solid binding. One of 210 copies. Hand made paper. Minor, old damp stain to outer edge, top margin, first end pages; doesn't effect text. Chip missing from spine label. "In The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (1933) T.S. Eliot calls Campion, "except for Shakespeare . the most accomplished master of rhymed lyric of his time." His lyrics and the songs in which he presented them strongly reflect his period's style, and Davis finds Campion's influence in the works of such poets as Pound, W. H. Auden, and Robert Creeley. Campion has been called a poet of the ear, and his careful respect for the nature of the language and its capacities for pleasing intonation was a significant development." - Elise Bickford Jorgens, Western Michigan University, Poetry Foundation. "Here ends this edition of Fifty songs by Thomas Campion; chosen by John Gray. The border and decorations have been designed and engraved by Charles S. Ricketts, under whose supervision the book has been printed at the Ballantyne Press. Sold by Messrs. Hacon & Ricketts, at the sign of the Dial, lii Warwick Street, Regent Street, London. mdcccxcvi."--Colophon. Scarce volume.

Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.

[Vale Press]. CAMPION, Thomas. Fifty Songs. Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], London, 1896.

Price: US$503.34 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1896 (first thus). Demy octavo, lxi pages with wood-engraved borders and ornaments. Original quarter contrasting plain blue and yacht-patterned blue-and-white papered boards, with the printed paper title-label along the spine; all edges uncut; covers lightly marked, with the rear bottom corner slightly bumped and the spine a little sunned; endpapers and the tips of a few uncut edges browned; faint offsetting; edges a little dusty; an excellent copy. One of only 210 copies of this elegant publication from the Vale Press. The colophon states: 'Chosen by John Gray, the border and decorations engraved by Charles Ricketts, under whose supervision the book has been printed at the Ballantyne Press'. In his 'Bibliography of the Books issued by Hacon & Ricketts', Ricketts elaborates: 'Printed in the original spelling. With border of violets designed and cut on the wood by Charles Ricketts . Two hundred and ten copies printed at fifteen shillings and sixpence. Bound in paper (the ship) designed by Charles Ricketts'.

Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia