Eden Phillpotts — A Dish of Apples

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921 . First edition. Cloth. A charming first trade edition, illustrated by Arthur Rackham with colour and line plates, celebrating orchards and rural England in Phillpotts" lyrical verse. In the publisher's original cloth binding. First trade edition. Illustrated with three tipped-in colour plates, seven black and white plates, and numerous other text illustrations by Arthur Rackham. Collated, complete.This charming collection of poems from Eden Phillpotts celebrates pastoral England, centring around the themes of nature and harvest, with the greater part of the collection being poems in homage to varieties of orchard fruits.  Phillpotts was a prolific English author, poet and dramatist.Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was a leading illustrator of the Golden Age of Illustration, celebrated for his atmospheric interpretations of classic literature. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities, resulting in minor loss to cloth, with fraying to lower edge of front board. Fading to spine and towards rear joint. One or two very minor handling marks to boards. Slight offsetting to endpapers. Previous owner's ink inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1929. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with one or two spots and handling marks to fore edge and gutter. Very Good . Ill.: Arthur Rackham. Very Good .