Alice Meynell — Essays

London, Burns & Oates, 1914. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of essays from British writer Alice Meynell. First edition, fourth thousand. With a frontispiece. A collection of essays, with titles including Winds and Waters, Wayfaring, Arts, Women and Books, and The Darling Young. Written by Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell, a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. She was considered for the position of Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom twice, but was never appointed to the position. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and the odd mark to the boards. Light fading to the spine and board edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd spot. Age toning to the endpapers. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .