BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge.
Fringilla: Some Tales in Verse
BLACKMORE, Richard Doddridge.
Fringilla: Some Tales in Verse
A series of tales told in verse, focusing on Blackmore’s love of nature, also touching on the themes of Egypt, Good and Evil, Religion, Myths and Legends. A previously unrecorded variant binding of the special issue, which deviates radically in design being in limp vellum with ties, in the style of the Kelmscott Press, and without the design gilt-stamped on the cover.
Presentation copy, inscribed by the printer to his brother: “W. W. Folkard from his Brother Richard Xmas, 1895.“ Perhaps this variant binding was bound for the printer’s own taste - we note that he uses the variant spelling Ffolkard in the imprint.
Nelson, EM, 1895.8. Vellum slightly darkened, with natural variations in colour and creasing to rear. Warping to top edge. Slight foxing to endpapers. Slight offsetting from plates. A very good copy.
