Description
The first edition, first impression of The Country Scene by John Masefield, with pictures by Edward Seago, in the publisher’s scarce dust jacket.
Folio, 98pp. Green cloth spine over buckram boards, title stamped in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt, remaining edges uncut. Stated 1937 edition, with no subsequent printings noted. Gift inscription dated 1937 on second free endpaper, small bookplate on front pastedown. Complete with 42 tissue-guarded mounted color plates after paintings by Edward Seago. In the publisher’s near fine dust jacket, not price-clipped, closed tear along lower edge of spine, light toning to spine, a near fine example.
(Wight 94) (Errington A123)
This collaboration pairs Masefield’s poems with Seago’s English rural landscapes, issued while Masefield was Poet Laureate.
