[1905] Everychild: A Book of Verses for Children

Description

First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

The first edition, the paperback variant.

A very scarce work.

Inscribed by Holbrook Jackson's brother: 'To G.H. from J.C.J 9.5.05'. With an owner's stamp to the title page belonging to 'M. G. Jackson', a member of Jackson's family. 

The third published work of Holbrook Jackson, an anthology of verse for children. A charming anthology, compiled "with the idea of appealing to the capacity for wonder and delight in the things of daily life, and the more real things of the imagination". 

Including selections of the poetical works of William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, William Morris, Shakespeare, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and more, as well as Holbrook himself.

Compiled by the journalist, writer, and publisher George Holbrook Jackson. A noted journalist who worked for numerous magazines during his career, Jackson is known as being one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. He founded in the Flying Fame Press alongside Ralph Hodgson and Claud Lovat Fraser, and had a long association with English small presses.

One page of adverts to the rear.

Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.