Poems for Winter
[Mission, B.C.]: Barbarian Press, 2004 [in roman numerals]. Octavo, 22.1 x 14.3 cm. Sewn with purple thread into marbled paper wraps; the paper was hand-marbled by Ann Muir in Somerset. Title-label, printed in pale blue, to the upper cover. Unpaginated [pp. 12]. A Fine copy. The text was set in Van Dijck and Elysian type, and printed on Legion Letterpress paper. The text comprises poems on the theme of winter by an anonymous 16th century poet, Longfellow, Hardy, Edward Thomas, Richard Hughes, and John Berryman. The title-page is decorated with printer’s ornaments resembling snowflakes, printed in pewter-grey. One of (“about”) 100 numbered copies printed to commemorate the first Alcuin Society Wayzgoose. Item #436
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