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4to, pp. 156. Polished calf binding, lettered in gilt to front panel, spine and turn-ins, raised bands. Brown endpapers. Top edge gilt, uncut. Some light foxing to preliminaries, but a very well preserved copy in a fine binding. Woodcut frontispiece of the author and title page by Gwen Raverat. Limited edition, no. 85 of 1000 copies, printed on handmade Riccardi paper, very finely bound -- and illustrated with the woodcuts of Gwen Raverat, a close friend of Rupert Brooke's in pre-war Cambridge (and Charles Darwin's granddaughter).

This posthumous collection of poetry by Rupert Brooke includes his famous war sonnets, capturing the idealism and changing moods of World War I.