RODKER, John (1894-1955). Hymns, London, The Ovid Press, 1920, 8vo, ornaments by E. Wadsworth, buckram. ONE OF 20 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. With B. C. Windeler's Elimus (Paris, Three Mountains Press, 1923, 8vo, boards, NUMBER 97 OF 300 COPIES).

RODKER, John (1894-1955).  Hymns. [London:] The Ovid Press, 1920. Large 8vo (250 x 155mm). Half title, title with yellow publisher's motif, initials and ornaments by Edward Wadsworth. Original tan and orange buckram with printed label mounted on upper cover (some very light staining). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 190 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 29 OF 20 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Cloud John Rodker's Ovid Press: A Bibliographical History p.85. John Rodker founded the Ovid Press in 1919 and ran it until its closure in 1922. In its short life it produced only 17 books but published several authors who were central to the modernist movement, including T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound. With B. C. Windeler's Elimus: A Story (Paris, Printed at the Three Mountains Press, 1923, large 8vo, 12 woodcut illustrations, some full-page, by D. Shakespear [sic], original red buckram-backed printed paper boards, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 97 OF 300 COPIES "ON RIVES HAND-MADE PAPER", the front pastedown inscribed, "à Wadsworth [illegible word] 1916, P.O.B.W."). (2)