Ecstasy.

Howe (R.L.)

Ecstasy.

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. vii, 241, crown 8vo, original pale yellow cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt, one corner bumped, a little darkened in places with a 2 inch stain around foot of lower joint, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket chipped, browned, soiled and creased with portions of loss, good

Publication Details: Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1937

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To his very good friend, S. Althop, this copy - one of the first six from the publishers - is presented with the compliments of the author'. A scarce book, the author obscure aside from the details he gives us here, combining nature-writing and literary reflection - or, as the dustjacket blurb has it, '"belles-lettres" and the English countryside at its best'; his most persistent models are classical, including the over-arching one of Longinus 'On the Sublime', though he also pauses on Shakespeare and Romanticism....moreInscribed by the author on the flyleaf: 'To his very good friend, S. Althop, this copy - one of the first six from the publishers - is presented with the compliments of the author'. A scarce book, the author obscure aside from the details he gives us here, combining nature-writing and literary reflection - or, as the dustjacket blurb has it, '"belles-lettres" and the English countryside at its best'; his most persistent models are classical, including the over-arching one of Longinus 'On the Sublime', though he also pauses on Shakespeare and Romanticism. HIDE