109. Milhaud (Darius) Two Poems of Coventry Patmore, 24pp., number XXII of XXV copies on Japon signed by the composer, from an edition limited to 300, text in English and French, printed in Lutetia, title in red and black, 2 wood-engraved illustrations by John Buckland Wright, musical notation, bound in moulded black revorim, by Jean de Gonet (série 3 ‘briques’), covers edged in brown calf at fore-edges, grey calf spine with exposed threads and red linen bands, uncut, signed in binding, original blue wrappers with printed label on upper cover bound in, slight rubbing to calf on spine and edges, folio, 380 x 280mm., Maastricht etc., A.A.M.Stols, 1931.
est. £600 – £800
In correspondence with Stols, Buckland Wright called the illustrations “hell to do” because he judged Patmore a terrible Pre-Raphaelite, too puritan and not pagan enough.
Unsold