Salt Water Poems and Ballads / John Masefield
Book
163 pages. Color frontis, 12 color plates and 20 black and white plates.
The English Poet Laureate's first book, containing his most remembered poem and one of the most famous in English literature, "Sea Fever" : "I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a start to steer her by."
2015.7.342
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Sea poetry1910s
8-1/2 in
5-1/2 in
John Masefield
Charles Pears
Reprint
New York
New York
United States
North America
1916
1924
Publishers' Binding- Onlay
George W. Hood
Dark green cloth with paste-on printed color illustration of a ship, framed by a gold border of waves that extends to a dropout title box flanked by stylized textured gold dolphins. Gold trident and wave on the spine appears never to have been stamped in gilt. Signed binding, monogram "GH" split up: G to the left of the left dolphin's pectoral fin, H to the right of the right dolphin's pectoral fin.