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Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

Lot 284
09.12.2020 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 284 | Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
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£ 3 500 – 5 000
Edward Thomas (1878-1917)

Six Poems. 1927

EASTAWAY, Edward (pseudonym of Edward Thomas, 1878–1917). Six Poems. [Flansham]: Pear Tree Press, [1927].



First edition of Thomas’s first book, second state, no.50 of 100 copies signed by the publisher James Guthrie. ‘All copies were not printed at the same time; those of the first state were published at 21s., 1916-1921 […] those of the second state were published at £2 2s’ (Eckert). In the present state, p.9 features a full-length illustration and p.17 includes a circular illustration with ‘Edward Thomas’ beneath. Although the colophon gives a limitation of 100 copies, Eckert states ‘the total number printed […] was less than a hundred and the plates are now destroyed’. Accompanying the volume is a letter by James Guthrie referring to the printing of this edition. Eckert pp.235-237.



Folio (267 x 190mm). Engraved text and illustrations printed in colours throughout (a few leaves lightly spotted). Original brown wrappers, engraved paper label to front wrapper, bound within original cream boards with engraved paper label to upper board (lightly soiled and bumped, waterstains to two corners). Provenance: Claude Prance (1906-2002, writer and collector; two labels to front pastedown).



[with:] James GUTHRIE. Autograph letter signed to ‘Muir’, 8 October 1933, about the edition: ‘the date 1927 is presumably in writing, & represents when that copy was done from the plates … “6 Poems” … was, I remember, a struggle at a bad time, & it isn’t one I am proud of as a bit of printing’.

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