Eden Phillpotts — A Dish of Apples

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this delightful collection of poems capturing the essence of rural England and its orchards, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. First trade edition.In the original cloth binding. Illustrated with three tipped-in colour plates, seven black and white plates, and numerous other text illustrations. 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.Embellished with the work of English book illustrator Arthur Rackham, recognised as one of the leading figures of the Golden Age of book illustration. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart indeed, with minor rubbing to the extremities and a couple minor marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with scattered spotting to the endpapers and occasionally to the margins throughout. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Arthur Rackham. Very Good Indeed .