A SHROPSHIRE LAD

Second printing of the first Agnes Miller Parker illustrated edition. Contemporary half morocco and red cloth boards, with titles and borders in gilt to the spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with woodcuts by Agnes Miller Parker throughout. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the gilt bright and fresh. The contents, with an previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. A handsome copy.

A collection of 63 poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, first published (without illustrations) in 1896 by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Company in London. Agnes Miller Parker (1895-1980) was a Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter, who was well-known for her distinctive woodcut illustrations. She was particularly celebrated for her illustrations for Aesop's Fables and her engravings for various Thomas Hardy novels in the 1950s.