The Springtide of Life. RACKHAM (Arthur), SWINBURNE (Algernon Charles).

Poems of Childhood. With a Preface by Edmund Gosse.

Frontispiece and eight colour plates mounted on brown art paper with captioned tissue guards. Black and white illustrations throughout.

First Limited Signed Edition. Large 4to. [292 x 235 x 24 mm]. ix, [i], 132, [2] pp. Bound in the publisher's original quarter vellum over white parchment boards, the front cover and spine blocked in gilt, illustrated endleaves, top edge gilt, the others uncut. (Slight browning around edges of the boards and on free endleaves, upper corners with minor bump).
London: William Heinemann, 1918.

No.154 of the de luxe edition of 765 copies signed by Rackham (of which 100 were reserved for United States of America and 15 for Presentation). A fine copy. With a loosely inserted notice from Heinemann.

Stock no. ebc8035