Misprision by Brett Smith (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 8vo. Paperback. Plain brown printed wrappers. Stitched binding. 8pp. 1st edition. Previous owner's name in tiny print at top of front cover. Covers bit sunned & worn at edges.

FIRST EDITION, single spot to fore-margins of final leaf, pp. 8, 4to, original sewn grey wrappers printed in black to front, a touch of corner-creasing with gentle browning to borders, a couple of small marks to rear cover, good. Brett-Smith, an Oxford don and renowned book-collector, was the literary editor for the Shakespeare Head Press; much of his academic work, as well as his original verse (as here, preceded by 'Poems of the North') was published by Blackwell's. This book is scarce: the Bodleian only on JiscHub; WorldCat does not add any holdings. It consists of four poems, including experiments with medieval verse-forms, ending with 'Maestitia Senectutis', an amusing series of observations on the commencement of the academic year.…