Poésie

1932 · 48528 — Toronto: Macmillan of Canda At St. Martin's House. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Book is 3/4 gray paper boards and 1/4 cream spine. Very slight bump to one corner and slightly dusty top and bottom edges are only flaws to a well preserved copy. Contents are unmarked and pages are about new in freshness and crispness. Small impression to ffep from former pencilled price. Dj is intact but very fine paper has numerous edge tears and is tears along spine. Slightly sunned to top edge and spine of dj. A rare copy in inviting condition. Errata slip laid-in. Robert Norwood writes in the introduction: ".my gratitude for this Canadian Pre-Raphaelite is unbounded. She comes with the gentle insistence of Keats with the mysticism of Blake with the sound of old lutes and zithers that have lain too long forgotten in the palace of minstrelsy." John Garvin editor of Canadian Poets writes: This fine artist in words whose poems have appeared in the 'Atlantic Monthly' the 'Metropolitan' the 'Windsor' and other leading periodicals is Mrs. John W. C. Taylor of Montreal. She was born in New Haven Oswego County N. Y. Her father was the late William Cheever Bartlett of New Haven a veteran of the Civil War and a descendant of Lieutenant George Bartlett one of the founders of Guilford in Connecticut in 1639; and her mother Mary Moulton also a native of the Empire State. . . . . After studying in public schools and under private tutors until seventeen years of age Miss Bartlett came to Toronto and secured employment in the law offices of Macdonald & Marsh of which firm Sir John A. Macdonald was the senior partner. In 1891 she married the young English artist who has since become President of a Lithographing Company and shortly afterwards had the advantage of a year in England visiting Cathedral towns birth-places of poets and 'unfrequented by-ways and villages of pure English charm.' . Macmillan of Canda At St. Martin's House hardcover