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Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with Meynell sisters.
Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with Meynell sisters.
Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with Meynell sisters.

THOMPSON, Francis; HOUSMAN, Laurence (illustrator).

Sister-Songs. An Offering to Two Sisters...,

London & Boston, John Lane at The Bodley Head; Copeland and Day, 1895.

£225.00
£225.00

Sister-Songs.

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Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with the daughters of Alice and Wilfrid Meynell, who had rescued Thompson both from obscurity and life on the streets.

First edition; 8vo (200 x 155 mm); frontispiece by Laurence Housman with tissue guard, decorative title printed in orange, 16pp. advertisements; publisher's bevelled buckram with gilt leaf motif reminiscent of Charles Shannon, a little sunned, partly uncut.

Stock code 104662

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Further poems by the English poet, and Catholic mystic, Francis Thompson. Potentially inspired by the author's relationship with Meynell sisters.

Sister-Songs.

£225.00
£225.00

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