The Eastern Anthology Volume II / Eastern Love
Mathers, E. Powys
| Publication Date | 1927 /1928 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | John Rodker, |
| Binding | Hardcover |
| Condition | Good+, sound copy. |
| SKU | 3485 |
| Notes | 1000 numbered copies printed but the number is in the missing volume 1. Binding has gilt illustration to front and gilt titles to spine. Gilt to front is bright but pale vellum bevelled boards, once dark cream or yellow, are heavily dust soiled and has some occasional marks to front, with a significant stain to back which as a thin layer of paper stuck to it. Gilt to spine is rubbed and the spine is creased and marked. Slight stain to endpapers to closed page edges of next few pages. Text block is clean and bright and illustrations are crisp. Gilt to top edge; uncut to fore-edge and bottom edge. One illustration has missed being coloured. An unusual volume of traditional tales in translation from Arabic, Sanskrit and Chinese. |
Description
Published for subscribers and possibly individually bound by the customer. Marked volume II to the binding and contains Mathers Volume 4 (1927) Eastern Love: The Young Wives' Tale and Tales of Fez; Volume 5 (1928) Eastern Love: The Loves of Radha Krishna and Amores of Amaru and Mayura; Volume 6 (1928) Eastern Love: Love Stories and Gallant Tales from the Chinese. Illustrated with copper engravings by Hester Sainsbury and hand coloured by the printer. Hester Sainsbury and John Rodker were both modernists. Rodker was a poet and publisher who worked with Ezra Pound. He and fellow poet Hester Sainsbury were part of a group The Choric School. Sainsbury was a dancer and a painter and specialised in verse ad movement.
