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