Corn and Poppies.

£190 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

The fine frontispiece appears only in these large paper copies. Bookplate of John Harold Greig - the Bishop of Gibraltar, then Guildford. Le Gallienne admired Lane’s aptitude for gathering promising young writers such as Cosmo Monkhouse. In December 1889 he wrote to Lane saying “ Corn and Poppies is a title I like much [;] it is full of suggestion”. It includes the mournful “Dead March” described by his biographer in the DNB, Austin Dobson, as “stately” and “his highest effort”. Spine rather darkened, otherwise a very good copy.

• Binding: Hardcover

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