Author: The Rhymer's Club
Title: The Second Book of the Rhymer&Apos;S Club
Description: London, Elkin Matthews & John Lane, 1894. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the second book of poetry issued by the Rhymer's Club, limited to five hundred copies printed for England. First edition. Limited to five hundred copies printed for England (of which four hundred are for sale), with one hundred and fifty copies printed for America. The second of two books of poetry issued by the Rhymers' Club, a group of London-based male poets, founded in 1890 by W. B. Yeats and Ernest Rhys. Originally not much more than a dining club, they produced anthologies of poetry in 1892 and 1894. With contributions from Ernest Dowson, Edwin J. Ellis, G. A. Greene, Arthur Cecil Hillier, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, Victor Plarr, Ernest Radford, Ernest Rhys, T. W. Rolletston, Arthur Symons, John Todhunter, and W. B. Yeats. In the original full brown cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light age toning to the extremities and endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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