GALE, Norman [Rowland].

Orchard Songs.

Cover design and title-page by J. Illingsworth Kay. First edition. 8vo. Original vellum boards with gilt lettering and design on both covers, gilt lettering on spine. London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane; New York: G. Putnam’s Sons, 1893.

£40.00
GALE, Norman [Rowland].
Orchard Songs.

Signed by the author.

Nelson amusingly summarises Orchard Songs as “a mediocre little book of verse about glow-worms, nightingales, first kisses, budding orchards and babies” and notes that its “aura” is captured in Kay’s title-page design “with its patterns of brick wall, pool and flowers, fruit and leaves woven together by sinuous tendrils and branches”.

Nelson, 1893.24/65. Seeney, A15. A very good copy.

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