Loyalties

A Book of Poems

by John Drinkwater

illustrated by Paul Nash 

First, limited edition.  London:  Beaumont Press, 1918  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition.

• Decorated covers, quarter bound in tan buckram, are mostly clean, with title on gray paper label.   
• Boards show some rubbing at back cover, edgewear.  Corners are scuffed.  See photos.  
• Spine has text label, darkened, with scuffed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is strong. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, bookseller marks.  
• Illustrations, black and white designs, hand colored, are bright and clear, with scattered marginal foxing.  See photos.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, more at margins, with scattered light foxing.  See photos. 
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges are hand cut at head edge.  See photos. 
• PS2023.0212

41 pages. 5 x 7.5 inches

First edition, limited to 200 copies; this copy is number 48.  Hand printed.  Cloth-backed decorated paper boards with title labels.  Eighteen poems.  Ten black and white illustrations and cover design by Paul Nash.  Some darkening to spine and edgewear to the boards.  Interior shows scattered light foxing throughout.  Condition is overall Very Good.

A collection of eighteen poems by the English poet and dramatist John Drinkwater (1882-1937).  The cover and illustrations are by Paul Nash (1889-1946), his first work in book form.  The illustrations in all copies of the cartridge paper state were hand-colored by the typographer and printer Cyril Beaumont, according to the bibliographer Michael Pearce.  This was done without consulting Nash, who was somewhat displeased. 

This is the fifth book issued by the Beaumont Press, and the second printed by hand.  The edition was limited to 200 copies: 30 copies on Japanese vellum, signed by the author and artist, numbered 1-30; 50 copies on cartridge paper, numbered 31 to 80; 120 copies on hand-made paper, numbered 81 to 200.  This copy is Number 48.  The typography and binding were arranged by Cyril William Beaumont.  Hand printed on his press located at 75 Charing Cross Road in the City of Westminster.  Printing was completed Christmas Eve, 1918.  The Pressman was Charles Wright. 

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