Edmund Blunden - A Summer&Apos;S Fancy

London, The Beaumont Press, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition poetry collection by the renowned English poet, Edmund Blunden, with beautiful illustrations throughout. The first edition, printed on handmade paper. Limited to 325 copies, this being number 197. In the original quarter cloth binding on patterned boards. With a beautiful frontispiece and numerous illustrations throughout by Randolph Schwabe. Edmund Charles Blunden, MC (1896 - 1974) was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I. For most of his career, Blunden was also a reviewer for English publications and an academic in Tokyo and later Hong Kong. He ended his career as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. The half title page is present. In the original quarter cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the edges. Spine is darkened. Marks to the front board, and handling marks to both boards. Very light offsetting to the free endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages very bright and clean with just the odd handling mark. Several pages are uncut throughout. Very Good . Ill.: Randolph Schwabe. Very Good .

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