EDWARDS, Cyril (dates unknown). Seven Sonnets, London, 1934, 8vo, text engraved throughout, FINELY BOUND in original tree calf gilt by Birdsall. FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 73 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND CHARLES SIGRIST IN THE COLOPHON.
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EDWARDS, Cyril (dates unknown). Seven Sonnets. London: W. S. Hodgkinson & Sons, 1934. 8vo (215 x 135mm). Text engraved throughout. FINELY BOUND in original polished old-style tree calf gilt by Birdsall, the spine lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, uncut and unopened, original glassine wrapper (part of the glassine wrapper lacking). Provenance: pencil addition of the word "that" to the second, or possibly the third, line of the first sonnet (?by the author). A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. NUMBER 73 OF 250 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND CHARLES SIGRIST IN THE COLOPHON. The colophon states: "These Sonnets by Cyril Edwards [signed] engraved in 1934 by Charles Sigrist [signed] on copper, were printed from the original unfaced 13 plates by Frank E. Seary, London, W.1. on hand made paper by W. S. Hodgkinson & Sons, and bound by Birdsall. Of 250 copies this is No. 73." We have been unable to establish any biographical information about the poet.
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