Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode
First Edition.
18cm x 11.5cm. [28] pages, photographic portrait frontispiece, black and white illustrations. Original soft leather wrappers, gilt lettering and decoration, dentelles, floral endpapers.
Queensland poetry by George Essex Evans illustrated by Alexander Phillip Sass in a mythological medieval style with numerous nude female figures. Queen of the North: A Jubilee Ode has previously been misattributed as a posthumous publication, Evans having died in November of 1909, however this has been proven incorrect, and is actually the final published work. This copy in the superior leather binding with a photographic portrait of Evans which is not present in the standard edition.
Wrappers discoloured at spine. Without the tipped in note. Good Condition.
$200.00 AUD
1 in stock