Henry Christopher Bradby - Sonnets - First Edition

BRADBY, Henry Christopher (1866-1947).

Sonnets.

No place: privately published, 1918.

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (16 x 13cm), pp.16. Publisher's card wraps printed in black to upper, sewn. John Farleigh designed bookplate of noted printer William Maxwell to inside cover.

Internally clean, some marking to covers. Scarce with few copies in institutional hands and uncommon in commerce. Very good.

A memorial collection of poems by Rugby schoolmaster H. C. Bradby published to mark the armistice in 1918.

Catherine W. Reilly: English Poetry of the First World War p.64.