A Shropshire Lad. Illustrations by Elinore Blaisdell [New York]: [J. J. Little & Ives Company], [1932].
Deluxe Edition
Large octavo. 110, [1, blank] pp. With eight full-page illustrations by Blaisdell throughout, all reckoned within pagination. Bound in modern three-quarter green crushed levant morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endleaves. Spine sunned and mildly soiled, some rubbing to edges, pages a bit wrinkled. Near fine.
Deluxe edition of A. E. Housman's beloved suite of poems "A Shropshire Lad". At turns melancholy and celebratory, the work is a commemoration of youth and rural life in the English countryside.
Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 1936), usually known as A. E. Housman, was an English poet, professor, and classical scholar. He served as the Latin chair at University College, London and at Cambridge. During his lifetime Housman published numerous scholarly articles, definitive editions of Juvenal, Manilius and Lucan, and three books of poetry. He is considered not only one of the foremost classicists of his age, but also one of the greatest scholars of all time.
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