4to. Number 1146 of 1525 copies. Publisher’s original stiff marbled paper covered boards, paper label on upper cover lettered in black, with original glassine dustjacket. Printed at the Cambridge University Press for the Nonesuch Press, Bloomsbury, 1929.
Fine, wrappers with a small strip of sunning along the top where not covered by the glassine jacket, some slight foxing to endpapers.
A playful love poem about the ‘constant strain’ of the ‘Life Aesthetic’, by the acclaimed costume historian and former keeper of prints and drawings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
