Eden Phillpotts — A Dish of Apples

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1921. First edition. Cloth. The smart first edition of this delightful collection of poems on rural England and its orchards, illustrated by Arthur Rackham. The first trade edition.  Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library.  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, with minor rubbing to the spine and board corners. Front hinge starting, but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound, with gutter slightly showing between pp. 24-25 and the plate facing pp. 44 detached but present. Pages are bright and generally clean, with occasional spotting to the gutters and margins. Good . Ill.: Arthur Rackham. Good .