The constant mistress

Enid Clay

RA Collection: Book

Record number

09/1173

Author

Edition

1st edition

Imprint

London: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1934

Physical Description

40, [2] p. : illus. ; 23 cm.

General Note

6 wood engravings by Eric Gill (complete with loosely-inserted tissue-guards).

Contents

The Constant Mistress -- The Housewives -- Suburban Spring -- Gifts -- The Norfolk Dunes -- The Mausoleum -- Marionette -- Six Sonnets -- Release -- Parade -- Stone-Carving -- Cocktails -- Farewell -- Avowal -- A baby -- Words -- Late Summer -- The Party -- Futility -- The Bird -- The Spectre of the Rose -- Absinthe -- Septain: Enchantment -- Recompense -- A New World -- Benediction -- Pierrot to Columbine -- To a Lady Wearing a Gardenia -- The Ship -- The Young Girl’s Room -- Beauty

Summary Note

“Uniform with Enid Clay’s Sonnets & Verses, also illustrated by Eric Gill, and published by this Press in March, 1925, this book has been printed at the Golden Cockerel Press, 10 Staple Inn, London, & completed on the twentieth day of November, 1934. Compositors: A. H. Gibbs and E. J. Ward. Pressman: H. Barker.”

Copy Note

The edition is limited to 300 copies, of which this is Number 149. Colophon numbered and signed by Enid Clay and Eric Gill

Binding Note

Original quarter cloth over green paper boards. All edges uncut. Printed paper spine label lettered: The Constant Mistress by Enid Clay

Subject

Illustrated books
Wood-engravings
20th-century poems
Poetry Collections

Contributors

Eric Gill ARA, wood-engraver, draughtsman
The Golden Cockerel Press, printer/publisher