EDWARD THOMAS. James Guthrie. — To the Memory of Edward Thomas.

The Pear Tree Press, Flansham, 1st Edition, First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies (this being #42). 4to. 32pp. Plum-coloured cloth lettered in gold at the upper board alongside a gilt-stamped decoration. With a superb linocut frontispiece portrait of the subject by Robin Guthrie, and a number of illustrations in the text printed in assorted colours. A sliver of very light discolouration to the head of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective, and one or two tiny isolated marginal fox-spots. A virtually fine copy in nearly very good dust wrapper, chipped with a small area of loss from the upper edge, a fraction more from the tail of the spine panel, and with several small areas of light indeterminate staining. A delightful and really quite fugitive celebration of Edward Thomas, which includes an introductory note and a twelve-page tribute by the publisher James Guthrie, excerpts from a series of forty-six letters from Thomas to W. H. Hudson, several of Guthrie's own poems and illustrations, a colour reproduction of an advertisement of Thomas' pseudonymous collection 'Six Poems', and reproductions of several of the decorations from the 1916 collection., Near Fine, Very Good