The Garden of Adonis

Oliver Hill

London

:

Philip Allan & Co.

,

1923

.
First Edition. Inscribed by Author

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

The Arcadian, Uranian photography of architect Oliver Hill presented alongside quotes from the Romantic poets. The first of several lavish productions by Philip Allan of Hill’s Pictorialist images of children. This copy inscribed by Oliver Hill for Sidney Smith and dated September 1927, undoubtedly Witney blanket man Sidney Smith, Hill having designed Merryfield House for him and gifted upon the completion of construction.

Cloth somewhat soiled, rubbed, and bubbling, 2.5cm split to upper joint at tail, still firm. Foxing, especially to endpapers, mostly marginal throughout. 8 of the plates with a small marginal crease to the bottom left corner. Good Condition.