Daniel Press Buckton (3 results)

With an introductory poem, by Robert Bridges. No. 89 by 130 copies. Printed in small pica roman. Pp. 68. Sm. 4to., vellum backed blue paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, original blue printed wrappers with ornaments on upper cover bound in. Slighty worn corners with a little darkening to edges, otherwise a very good, uncut copy. Buckton's first collection of poetry comprising 43 short poems on emotional and religious themes. Booklabel of E.H. Dukes.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original dark blue wrappers with decorative titling front & back. Roy.8vo, c.pp66 uncut, yapp edges a little creased and worn (as is the case with most books from the Daniel Press), but a very good attractive copy preserved in a modern boxed chemise in strikingly attractive marbled paper. ** Edition Limited to 130 numbered copies. This is Copy No 56. *** Alice Buckton's first published work : comprises 43 short poems on religious & emotional subjects. Madan : Daniel 51. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…

First edition, number 93 of 130 copies, printed by C. H. O. Daniel at his private press, of "forty-three short poems by Miss A. M. Buckton (the author of Eager Heart) on religious and emotional subjects - her first published work" (Madan, p. 128). Colin Franklin started his survey of Private Presses with the Daniel Press, stating that it "forms a pleasant bridge across from one to another kind of private printing". Daniel started printing from about 1845 to 1859 at Frome, Somerset, and then from 1874 until 1919 at Oxford. His activities therefore significantly predate Morris's Kelmscott Press. Franklin states that Daniel has "some right to be honoured a pioneer in the revival of printing" (Franklin, p. 23). "Daniel Press books are all rare, some of them excessively so. they are rare for us, because they were made for his friends. Some outsiders treasured these books, and after 1884 he printed for sale; no reason why the thing should not pay for itself." (Franklin, p. 33). "Of the estimation in which the Daniel Press is held among literary men there is abundant proof from many quarters, which may perhaps best be summarized in the words which accompany a portrait of Dr. Daniel in Rothenstein's Oxford Characters. Worth printing, Worth buying, Worth reading, and Worth keeping" (Madan, p. 54). "This volume was reprinted in the same year for general publication by Elkin Mathews, London, with seven additional poems. 'The Singer speaks' there prefixed to Bridges' Poem seems to explain that Bridges wrote the poem in the person of the poetess, describing her feelings" (Madan, p. 128). The poem later appeared in Bridges's Poetical Works in 1912 where it was titled "A Vignette". McKay see p. 98; Madan 51. Colin Franklin, The Private Press, 1991; Falconer Madan, The Daniel Press. Memorials of C. H. O. Daniel, 1921. Quarto. Preliminary and rear blanks, press device at rear. Original blue wrappers, lettered in black, rear wrapper with press device in black. Wrappers worn with tears and small loss to extremities: a very good copy.…