THE YEAR'S AT THE SPRING: AN ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY

ILLUSTRATED BY HARRY CLARKE

COMPILED BY L. D'O WALTERS     WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HAROLD MUNRO

GEORGE G. HARRAP & CO., LIMITED    LONDON    1920  

Stated at copyright: First published September 1920.  Dated MCMXX at title page.  Large 8" x 10 1/4" gift book design.  Rare illustrated edition.  Spring green full-cloth boards, gilt cover and spine titles, decorative bands, moderate shelf wear.  Cover features flourishing gilt borders and patterns.  Pages very good, clean.  Green matte endpapers.  Stylish antiquarian signatures inside cover: "Robert N. Whitford" at center, and "Nancy Schaefer" above this; page 17 w/some neatly pencilled intelligent notation following Harold Monro introduction. Bind good; hinges intact.  Beautifully illustrated throughout by Harry Clarke featuring two dozen plates in color and two dozen in b&w w/monochromatic colored elements.  Vignettes and partial-page imagery throughout.  Clarke's brilliant imagery presents as art nouveau with some transitioning to art deco.  Sharp very good first edition of this illustrated gem.

Contributing poetry includes pieces from: H. H. Abbott, J. Redwood Anderson, Hilaire Belloc, E. J. Brady, Rupert Brooke, P. R. Chalmers, G. K. Chesterton, Mary E. Coleridge, Frances Cornford, W. H. Davies, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, Helen Parry Eden, James E. Flecker, Rose Fyleman, W. W. Gibson, Robert Graves, Juann Grenfell, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, Teresa Hooley, Lionel Johnson, Margaret Mackenzie, John Masefield, Irene McLeod, Auce Meynell, Harold Monro, Sarojini Naidu, H. D. C. Pepler, Queenie Scott-Hopper, James Stephens, E. W. Tennant, E. Thomas, R. E. Vernede, L. D'O. Walters, Sir William Watson, Marion St. John Webb, W. By. Yeats, and, Francis Brett Young.

Clarke (March 17, 1889-1931) was a famed Irish book illustrator and stained glass artist.  Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.  Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh.  4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.  128 pages.  Insured post.