Little Ann and Other Poems. TAYLOR (Jane and Ann).

58 colour printed illustrations and vignettes by Kate Greenaway and black and white pictorial title-page.

Small 4to. [233 x 152 x 8 mm]. 64pp. Bound in publisher's original half green cloth, glazed paper sides with colour printed illustrations by Greenaway, yellow endleaves, green stained edges. (A little marked).
London: Frederick Warne and Co. and New York [c.1888]

Originally published by Routledge in 1883, this Warne edition differs only on the title-page. The covers indicate that Greenaway's illustrations were "Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans".

There are some marks and minor stains to the text but it is a good copy, made better by the ink inscription on the verso of the front free endleaf: "To Mrs Mason / with kindest regards / From AC Swinburne".

In 1879 the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) moved with his friend Theodore Watts-Dunton (1832-1914) to a house at the bottom of Pultney Hill called The Pines, and lived there together for almost 30 years. They were joined by Theodore's sister Miranda Mason, her husband Charles, and their son Bertie (born 1874). ODNB reveals that Swinburne formed an intense friendship with Bertie, which inspired 50 poems of little literary merit but some biographical interest.

Stock no. ebc7509