THE VINE PRESS, STEYNING - Lillygay: An Anthology of Anonymous Poems. Steyning: The Vine Press, 1920. 8vo (195 x 125mm). Half title, title printed in red and black with woodcut illustration, full-page woodcut illustrations by Eric and Percy West, the poem "Colophon" printed in red, the actual colophon printed in black, with a 4-page printed prospectus for the press loosely-inserted. Original printed wrappers (quite heavily spotted, joints torn). FIRST EDITION. LIMITED TO 590 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 504 OF 550 COPIES "PRINTED ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER." EXUBERANTLY INSCRIBED [?]BY THE EDITOR ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, "The Editor. Victor B. Neuburg, [followed by illegible words - see illustration], vii:xi:MCMxxxi." Please see the footnote to the previous lot. With 3 other books from the same press, namely Songs of the Groves: Records of the Ancient World (Steyning, 1921, 8vo, woodcut illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, dust-jacket, lacking lower half of backstrip, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 206 OF 550 COPIES "ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER"), Swift Wings: Songs in Sussex (Steyning, 1921, 8vo, 2 woodcut illustrations, original cloth-backed red pictorial boards, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 154 OF 550 COPIES "ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER") and Larkspur: A Lyric Garland (Steyning, 1922, 8vo, woodcut illustrations, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 451 OF 550 COPIES "ON ANTIQUE LAID PAPER"). (4)
