Poems 1901 to 1918 /
Walter John De la Mare (1873-1956)
Category
Books
Date
1920
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3183072.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 ; 20 cm. Loosely inserted: 1. folded leaf of ink manuscript notes ([2]p.) in the hand of Vita Sackville-West: Walter de la Mare as a poet of childhood; 2. Two poems by Walter de la Mare and (but!) Arthur Rogers (1938). Pencil text marking, with rear endpaper page references. Provenance: pastedowns inscribed "V.N. / Long Barn 1921" [i.e. Vita [Sackville-West] Nicolson, 1892-1962]. Inscribed on first endpaper of both vols.: "Vita from Freddy Xmas 1921" [i.e. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), perhaps from Frederick Archibald Nicolson, 2nd Baron Carnock (1883-1952)]. Binding: brown publisher's cloth, gold and blind decorated, gold lettered.
Makers and roles
Walter John De la Mare (1873-1956)