HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE

Edité par Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1902

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First impression of the true first edition. Alfred Austin was the Poet Laureate. ***Illustrated with ten black and white illustrations including a tissue-guarded black and white frontispiece showing 'The Country Churchyard by Edmund H. New' plus smaller tail-pieces to the end of each section. Loosely inserted at the rear are the original 1902 flyer from the publisher for 'A Tale of True Love and the Poems' by Alfred Austin, Poet Laureate and a four-page publisher's leaflet for the Popular Uniform edition of the works of Thomas Hardy in Nineteen Volumes. ***Very good in blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine and gilt decorative illustration to front board. Top edge of text-block gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge of text-block untrimmed (rough-cut, as called for). Contemporaneous owner's gift inscription to top of half-title-page in black fountain-pen: 'Julia G? Heakin? 11.6. 1902 from ?' Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Corners of boards slightly rubbed and very slightly bumped. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Light sporadic foxing to prelims and rear pages and some pages. Most interior pages clean. Full-page engravings clean. Spine tight. ***210 mm x140 mm. xi prelim-pages and 169 pages, plus six -pages of publisher's advertisements for the works of Alfred Austin to rear. ***'One cannot well drive about England with one's eyes open, without observing indication after indication of the strong, independent individuality of the English character, which may yet prove our best safeguard against that exotic 'Collectivism' of which we hear so much. The very landscape, its shapeless fields, its irregular hedgerows, its winding and wayward roads, its accidental copses, its arbitrariness of form and feature, are silent but living protest against the uniformity and preconceived or mechanical views of life. Who divided these fields? Who marked out these roads? No one did. They divided and marked out themselves just as strong characters divide and sever themselves from others, settle their own boundaries and define irregularly their own place and position. ***A square field you will no more find in an English landscape than a round one. They are all informal, serving and sweeping in and out in a manner unaccountable, which endows each of them with life and a kind of personality. The very lanes meander and zigzag so, you might almost think their course had been decided by the steps of some of our deeply-drinking Saxon ancestors, whose legs were more or less unsteady as they wended homeward after a day's thatching or threshing.' ***'Passing from Kent to Sussex is like passing from one society to another. Kent is softer, - I do not mean in climate, but in aspect, - more refined, more careful of itself, a little more self-conscious; in a word, more civilised.' (Quotes from page 21-22 and 23 respectively). ***Alfred Austin (1835-1913) was an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1896, after Tennyson. His poems are not now (nor indeed much then) critically regarded, whereas his prose works concerning nature, such as this title, are more appreciated. ***Edmund Hort New (1871-1931) was an English artist, member of the Birmingham Group, and leading illustrator, known in the 1890s as an illustrator in the black-and-white style of the Arts and Crafts movement. He specialised in pen and ink drawings of rural and urban landscapes, old buildings and their interiors, architectural features, and also designed bookplates. 'Haunts of Ancient Peace' was the first of many books to be illustrated by Edmund Hort New. ***First impression of the true first edition in the original decorative boards in very nice collectable condition. ***Of interest to collectors of Alfred Austin first editions and the illustrations of Edmund H. New and antiquarian titles about the English countryside. ***.…

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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
HAUNTS OF ANCIENT PEACE
Auteur
Alfred Austin
Éditeur
Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London
Année de publication
1902
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
No Jacket, as Issued
Reliure
Hardcover
Illustrateur
Edmund H. New
Édition
First Edition
Impression
1st Printing
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