THE YEAR'S AT THE SPRING. An Anthology of Recent Poetry. Compiled by L. D'O Walters.

First edition. Original beige cloth with titles in blue and decorations in red to the upper board and spine, in dustwrapper. Illustrated with 24 fantastic full page plates by Harry Clarke of which 12 are in colour and 12 are black and white, with further illustrations in black throughout the text. A better than very good copy, the binding square and firm, the spine tips and corners with mild rubbing and bumping. The contents, with some offsetting to the endpapers, very light spotting to the prelims and closed text block edge and faint marks to the plate facing page 62, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. There is a short closed tear each to the blank margins of the plates facing pages 106 and 109, not effecting the illustration. Complete with the near very good, rubbed and nicked original dustwrapper that is a little dusty and toned with a few short closed tears at the edges and some chipping to middle and tips of the spine.

A beautifully illustrated anthology featuring work by poets such as Rupert Brooke, Walter De La Mare, W. B. Yeats and Thomas Hardy. An excellent example of the illustrative work of the Irish artist Harry Clarke, displaying his typically dark and sinuous Art Nouveau style achieved with a combination of dense line work and airy open space.