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Queen Lucia
E F Benson
Queen Lucia
E F Benson
Book Excerpt: ...es of these prose-poems had been published, not of course in the hard business-like establishment of London, but at "Ye Sign of ye Daffodil," on the village green, where type was set up by hand, and very little, but that of the best, was printed. The press had only been recently started at Mr Lucas's expense, but it had put forth a reprint of Shakespeare's sonnets already, as well as his own poems. They were printed in blunt type on thick yellowish paper, the edges of which seemed as if they had been cut by the forefinger of an impatient reader, so ragged and irregular were they, and they were bound in vellum, the titles of these two slim flowers of poetry, "Flotsam" and "Jetsam," were printed in black letter type and the covers were further adorned with a sort of embossed seal and with antique looking tapes so that you could tie it all up with two bows when you had finished with Mr Lucas's "Flotsam" for the time being, and turned to untie the "Jetsam."Today the prose-poem of "Loneliness" had not been...
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 3, 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798683141301 |
Publishers | Independently Published |
Pages | 220 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 12 mm · 299 g |
Language | English |
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