Roden Noel — Ganymede & Bacchus

Portsmouth, Callum James Books, 2010. First edition. Paperback. A very smart limited edition of these illustrated poems from English writer Roden Noel. First thus, reprinted from Noel's Collected Poems with illustrations. Limited to fifty copies of which this is number seven. Illustrated throughout. Two illustrative poems being "Ganymede", focused on the divine hero from Troy, telling the story of how he was abducted by the gods to serve as Zeus's cup-bearer in Olympus, and "The Flesh the Triumph of Bacchus", exploring the pleasures of the ancient Greco-Roman god of wine and festivity. Written by Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, an English poet who was a Cambridge Apostle. In the original paper wraps. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .