Name/Title
Salt Water Poems and Ballads / John MasefieldEntry/Object ID
2015.7.342Description
163 pages. Color frontis, 12 color plates and 20 black and white plates.
The English Poet Laureate's first book, containing his most remembered poem and one of the most famous in English literature, "Sea Fever" : "I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a start to steer her by."Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Sea poetry, 1910sDimensions
Height
8-1/2 inWidth
5-1/2 inBook Details
Author
John MasefieldIllustrator
Charles PearsEdition
ReprintPublisher
Macmillan & CompanyPlace Published
City
New YorkState/Province
New YorkCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1916Date Printed
1924Binding
Binding Type
Publishers' Binding- OnlayBinding Designer
George W. HoodBinding Notes
Dark green cloth with paste-on printed color illustration of a ship, framed by a gold border of waves that extends to a dropout title box flanked by stylized textured gold dolphins. Gold trident and wave on the spine appears never to have been stamped in gilt.
Signed binding, monogram "GH" split up: G to the left of the left dolphin's pectoral fin, H to the right of the right dolphin's pectoral fin.
