Charlotte Mew — The Trees Are Down
Sidcot, The Gruffyground Press, 2002 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce signed limited edition copy of this poem by Charlotte Mew, signed by the illustrator Linda Holmes. A very scarce limited edition, from a limitation of 125 copies. Signed by the illustrator, Linda Holmes, to the limitation page In the publisher's original purple paper wraps. A peom by the English poet Charlotte Mew, whose work spanned the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism. Mew wrote the poem as a reaction to the cutting down of the great plane trees at Euston Square Garden in the 1920s. With a wood engraving by Linda Holmes. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, very smart. Slight shelf wear to bottom corner, with the scarce small mark to the rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Linda Holmes. Near Fine .
