![]() Gertzman, Fantasy, Fashion and Affection: Editions of Robert Herrick's Poetry for the Common Reader, 1810-1968, 1986, #56. Hesperides: Poems by Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick Alice Meynell (Ed.) 1887. Johnson, Notes on the History of the Elston Press (1997) Jay A. Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected. Hesperides Robert Herrick, Shropshire And Montgomeryshire Light Railway Under Military Control 1940-1961Mike Christensen, Outline Of Hindi Grammar: With Exercises And 2 CassettesR. Librarian Note: There is more than one Robert Herrick in the GoodReads database. This includes the carpe diem poem 'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time', with the first line 'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may'. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. Spine and board edges toned, minor shelf wear to bottom edge, light scuffs and marks to boards, small ink mark to head of first blank else contents clean and bright, single gathering unopened, a very good copy. Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. O'Kane, printed in Caslon Old Roman type. Rubrication and initials printed in red from designs by H. Original plain cloth-backed grey boards, titles in black to paper label to spine. Not trusting them, Hera also placed in the garden an immortal, never-sleeping, hundred-headed dragon named Ladon as an additional safeguard. This edition demonstrates the Elston Press "successfully working their way beyond the initial Kelmscott Press influence toward fully developing a unique style of its own, with O'Kane's illustrations and decorations now infused with a new artistic maturity, displaying a confident knowledge of renaissance bookmarking" (Johnson). Because Robert Herrick has usually been regarded as a poet of brief, brilliant moments, the 1,130 poems of his Hesperides have never been treated as a. The Hesperides were given the task of tending to the grove, but occasionally picked apples from it themselves. was first published in 1648 and was viewed by Herrick as his "definitive life's work" (ODNB). Herrick's Hesperides, or, The Works both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. Her designs "complement Hesperides beautifully and reflect the qualities of equanimity, sweetness, delicacy, and youthful idyllic enjoyment of nature for which the period admired Herrick" (Gertzman, p. ![]() This finely produced edition of Herrick's poems features striking woodcuts designed by the co-runner of the Elston Press Helen Marguerite O'Kane. ![]() First edition thus, one of 260 copies only, printed on Mayday 1903.
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