Poems Dramatic and Lyrical
1911, Clifford Bax's second published book of verse
Author
Clifford Bax
Publisher
The Orpheus Press, London, 1911
Printing Details
First edition. Hardback, bound in the original cream cloth with stylised gilt titling and star and angel design to upper board. Top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed. 23 × 18.5cm, 128pp.
Clifford Bax's second published book, issued under The Orpheus Press which also issued Bax's Orpheus, a theosophical magazine which ran from 1908 to 1914. There is a strong element of mythology and a spiritual quality to the poems, with titles such as Paganism, Arcadian Melody, Echo and Narcissus etc.
Condition
A good copy. There is some tanning and bumping to the cloth, and the untrimmed page edges are tanned but the books remains in very strong readable condition, and with secure binding.