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[RACKHAM, Arthur (1867–1939), illustrator]. –– SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles (1837–1909). The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood. With a preface by Edmund Gosse. London: William Heinemann, [1918].
4to. 9 color plates tipped to brown paper mounts with captioned tissue guards including frontispiece, 52 in–text illustrations by Rackham. Original vellum parchment–backed gilt–stamped boards, top edge gilt, others uncut (some sunning to extremes of covers, corners gently bumped, some light spotting to endpapers).
LIMITED EDITION, number 501 of 765 copies SIGNED BY RACKHAM on limitation. Contains the extra colored plate not in the trade edition. Latimore & Haskell, pp. 48–49.