Coloring his Large Paper Copy
Autograph Letter Signed (“F. W. Bourdillon”) to publisher regarding the coloring of his Large Paper Copy of his poem A LOST GOD.
Midhurst, Sussex: Buddington, 18 June 1900.
Price: $200.00
About the item
3 pages. 1 vols. 8vo. Coloring his Large Paper Copy. Some light browning and minor soiling, some creases else very good.
Item #39569
Bourdillon, best remembered for his poem beginning “The night has a thousand eyes,” writes (to publisher?), concerning the colouring of the plates of the Large Paper copy of A LOST GOD, his epic poem on the death of the god Pan and the beginnings of Christianity. This work, with illustrations by H. J. Ford (illustrator of Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books), was published by Elkin Mathews in 1891 in an edition of 500 copies and with an additional 50 copies on Large Paper. Bourdillon writes that the coloring of the plates in the copy sent him pleases him with minor changes which he notes. He asks that they "get Miss Carbow (Carlow?) to color for me the black set (not the sepia) in the large Paper Copy I send, with your copy returned." Of the first plate “Viper's Bugloss” he requests that the left hand corner at the foot should be in its true colour-blue. Mr. Ford took the scenery partly from a bit of cliff at Benchy Head, and inserted the true flowers. I think he would be pleased to see the colored copy if you care to send it to him.” He includes Ford's address and notes in the postscript that “I don’t want the copy I send disturbed in its original binding.”.
