Ansell, Evelyn Twenty Five Poems Geoffrey Keynes copy

Twenty Five Poems by Evelyn Ansell   Wood Engravings by Diana Bloomfield.

"To My Wife and Daughters".

Limited edition copy comes with a compliments slip from the publisher and a handwritten signed letter to Peter Foster one of the publishers of the Vine Press from Geoffrey Keynes the surgeon, scholar of English literature and author, younger brother of John Maynard Keynes. "Thank you for the Ansell a lovely little book and the Cockerell ends most delicate !".

Hemingford Grey, Vine Press, 1963. Peacock green silk with Bloomfield's gilt swan motif to front board, very well preserved and scarce, one of only 100 copies, printed on 'perhaps the last of the paper made by J. Batchelor for William Morris', special ink was used and marbled endpapers specially made by Douglas Cockerell and son.

The last book published by John Peters' and Peter Foster's Vine Press.

Rare . Silk boards and spine faded.