PROMETHEUS ON HIS CRAG

First edition, first printing. An edition of 160 numbered copies, signed by author and artist. This copy is no. 7. Set in Bodoni types, printed on Italian paper at Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, and bound in full purple morocco by Zaehnsdorf, London. Lettered in gilt to the spine. In the publisher's buff-coloured cloth slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout.

Signed by Ted Hughes in black ink to the the colophon and by Leonard Baskin in pencil to the lower edge of his frontispiece drawing of Prometheus and the Vulture). Baskin also provided the green, red and black headpiece to the colophon. A sequence of 21 poems, all but four beginning with the words "Prometheus on his crag". Although unmarked as such, this copy is from the library of Frank Pike, drama editor at Faber and Faber and friend of the author. (Sagar and Tabor A39)