£120
PRESENTATION COPY, tall 12mo, pp. 93, [1] + frontispiece. Original card wrappers attached within brown paper wrappers printed in black. Outer paper wrapper a little marked and rubbed, large chip from base of spine, small tear to top edge of fold. Presentation inscription to flyleaf: ‘To Katherine Johnston from WWP, Christmas 1912’.
A scarce privately-printed volume of poetry by poet and artist W.W. Peploe, bother to the Scottish Colourist painter Samuel Peploe and uncle of painters Denis and Willie Peploe. Peploe illustrates his own book, with a circular vignette to the front wrapper and an attractive frontispiece both depicting angular flowers reminiscent of the work of Aubrey Beardsley and Wyndham Lewis. Library Hub records 2 copies, at NLS and BL.
