The Garden of Adonis

London: Philip Allan & Co., 1923.
First Edition.

28.5cm x 22cm. xxix, [2] pages, 49 tipped in photographic plates. Original green cloth, gilt lettering and decoration.

Uranian, Arcadian photography by architect Oliver Hill, presented alongside extracts from the English and Romantic poets. The first of several lavish productions by Philip Allan of Hill’s Pictorialist images of children.

Minor shelf wear. Light stain to cloth of lower board. Foxing to endpapers (as often), minor elsewhere. Previous owner’s embossed blindstamp. Good Condition.

AU$300