The Garland of Rachel

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Considered more refined typographically than the earlier version. In the publishers cream card covers, yapp edges, 4 green silk ties (1 detached but present), black/red ink titles to spine. Internally, half title, [8], (ix-xxx), [1], [1], [4], 5-51 pp, [3], 55-60 Daniel Press history, 61-63, [1] Press Publications, [1] limitation, an edition limited to 450 copies, faint inch crack to top head joint, top edge cut, remainder not. First published in 1881 by the Daniel Press. The poem, a set of 4 line stanzas by Carroll is followed by a Latin metrical version of the same poem by Sir Richard Harrington. (210*128 mm). (Madan p113, 147/121. Sidney Herbert Williams p119 for 1st ed). A first version of the anthology had been printed privately in 1881 for Rachel's birth; the 1902 edition marks a refined, expanded, and typographically mature reissue, characteristic of the Daniel Press's final period.