"George Abraham Crawley (1864?1926) was a British artist, designer and purveyor of English taste. ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION complete in 2 volumes.Previously owned by George Abraham Crawley.Beautifully bound works of British poetry, full calf leather ruled in gilt, raised spine bands, elaborately stamped in gilt on spine, morocco spine labels titled in gilt, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers.Bright and clean.Slightly rubbed at extremities and spine corners rubbed, handwritten names on bookplates on front pastedowns of George Abraham Crawley and May Crawley, touch of foxing to title pages. Spine and board edges toned, minor shelf wear to bottom edge, light scuffs and marks to boards, small ink mark to head of first blank else contents clean and bright, single gathering unopened, a very good copy. O'Kane, printed in Caslon Old Roman type. Rubrication and initials printed in red from designs by H. Original plain cloth-backed grey boards, titles in black to paper label to spine. Gertzman, Fantasy, Fashion and Affection: Editions of Robert Herrick's Poetry for the Common Reader, 1810-1968, 1986, #56. Johnson, Notes on the History of the Elston Press (1997) Jay A. This edition demonstrates the Elston Press "successfully working their way beyond the initial Kelmscott Press influence toward fully developing a unique style of its own, with O'Kane's illustrations and decorations now infused with a new artistic maturity, displaying a confident knowledge of renaissance bookmarking" (Johnson). was first published in 1648 and was viewed by Herrick as his "definitive life's work" (ODNB). Herrick's Hesperides, or, The Works both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. Her designs "complement Hesperides beautifully and reflect the qualities of equanimity, sweetness, delicacy, and youthful idyllic enjoyment of nature for which the period admired Herrick" (Gertzman, p. This finely produced edition of Herrick's poems features striking woodcuts designed by the co-runner of the Elston Press Helen Marguerite O'Kane. First edition thus, one of 260 copies only, printed on Mayday 1903.
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