A Selection from the Poems of Michael Field No. 15 of 50 copies

Numbered limited edition of this selection from the poems of ‘Michael Field’, published by The Poetry Bookshop, being No. XV of an edition of 50 copies on de Haesbeek watermark paper stock; Michael Field was the pen-name of Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper (an aunt and a niece); their poems were well received, but eventually fell into obscurity – some suggest this was due to the discovery of the gender of the poet(s); the Poetry Bookshop operated in the Bloomsbury district from 1913-1926 and published living poets as well as selling books; cream cloth boards with gilt titling to front and spine, untrimmed pages; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, mild tanning to edges of some pages, bookshop label to front pastedown, minor toning to edges of boards, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper fairly heavily edgeworn to top edge, with some loss, 7 x 1.5 cm loss to rear panel near fold of flap.