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ROBINSON, W. Heath (1872-1944)
"A Widow's Weeds"
initial signed (lower right)
pen-and-ink on illustration card (some light soiling at edges not affecting image), matted and framed
8¾ x 6½ in. (223 x 165 mm), sheet size
Robinson's drawing was used as a full-page illustration facing the poem "A Widow's Weeds" in the London, 1916 edition of Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie, p.87 (also used in the New York, 1929 edition, p.86).
[With:] DE LA MARE, Walter. Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes. London: Constable and Co., 1913. 8o. Original blue cloth, gilter-lettered on front cover and spine, uncut (a few minor spots on front cover, slightly worn at ends of spine). Provenance: John Freeman, English poet and essayist, 1880-1929 (presentation inscription).
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with a holograph poem entitled "The Song of Shadows" inscribed to Freeman on the front free endpaper. The poem of comprised of 16 lines, with the presentation at the end: "With all rememberances to John Freeman from his friend W.J. dlm." Their friendship commencing in 1907, de la Mare was instrumental in getting Freeman published in the Georgian Poetry series, a group of anthologies edited by Edward Marsh and with contributions by Rubert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence among others.[And with:] Another edition. New York, 1929. 8o. Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson. Cloth; dust jacket. (3)
"A Widow's Weeds"
initial signed (lower right)
pen-and-ink on illustration card (some light soiling at edges not affecting image), matted and framed
8¾ x 6½ in. (223 x 165 mm), sheet size
Robinson's drawing was used as a full-page illustration facing the poem "A Widow's Weeds" in the London, 1916 edition of Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie, p.87 (also used in the New York, 1929 edition, p.86).
[With:] DE LA MARE, Walter. Peacock Pie. A Book of Rhymes. London: Constable and Co., 1913. 8
FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, with a holograph poem entitled "The Song of Shadows" inscribed to Freeman on the front free endpaper. The poem of comprised of 16 lines, with the presentation at the end: "With all rememberances to John Freeman from his friend W.J. dlm." Their friendship commencing in 1907, de la Mare was instrumental in getting Freeman published in the Georgian Poetry series, a group of anthologies edited by Edward Marsh and with contributions by Rubert Brooke and D.H. Lawrence among others.[And with:] Another edition. New York, 1929. 8