Gertrude’s poems

A$850 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

Sydney, Newcastle and London : W. E. Smith [for John Hopkins], 1895. Octavo (180 x 125 mm), original royal blue cloth over boards with gilt-lettered title to upper board (boards with flecking and light staining, spine darkened and frayed at ends); all edges gilt; front pastedown with bookbinder s ticket of W. E. Smith, Sydney; page [i] frontispiece portrait and facsimile signature of Gertrude Hopkins; page [ii] blank; page [iii] with the author s father s notice: To Relatives and Friends. So many of you who already possess one or more of the Poems contained in this volume have asked for copies of others in my possession, that I have had them printed and bound, together with a few introductory lines by a friend of the family, for Presentation only. In case this book may get into the hands of critics or strangers, they are asked to kindly remember this. The Author s Father. this page is also inscribed Presented to Harold Freeman Esq. by the Author s Father, John Hopkins, Nov. 9th 1895 ; page [iv] blank; pp. [v]-vii In Memoriam (an appreciation and biographical sketch of Gertrude by an anonymous friend); page [viii] blank; pp. 1-82 (poems and short prose pieces), [1] colophon; occasional spotting or handling marks at the margins, pp. 60-61 both with heavy off-setting, otherwise internally very good. This posthumous collection of verse and philosophical meditations by a young Sydney woman, Gertrude Hopkins (1869-1894), was printed by her father, John Hopkins, in the year followin

• Binding: Hardcover

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