JOHN PIPER. Anne Ridler. — The Jesse Tree. With drawings by John Piper.

The Lyrebird Press, 'Editions Poetry London' series, London, 1st Edition, First edition, a review copy with publisher's review slip, slightly creased and discoloured, laid-in. 8vo. 31pp + iv musical scores. Illustrated boards, faded and a little marked. With nine Piper drawings, two full-page and one reproduced and enlarged on the upper board. The board fading aside, a very bright copy, internally in virtually fine state. No dust wrapper, as issued. A dramatic poem, based upon a masque commissioned for performance in Dorchester Abbey, Oxford and illustrated by Piper who also provided designs for the Dorchester production. Levinson 143., Good