Drake: A Pageant-Play in Three Acts [Signed with Autograph Poem]

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1912. Very Good. London: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1912. First Edition. Octavo (19cm.); full contemporary gilt-embossed parchment by Bickers & Son, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; x,[4],117pp.; frontispiece, three leaves of plates. Parchment lightly soiled, textblock a shade toned and early leaves foxed, else a Very Good or better, quite brilliant copy. Signed by the author on half title verso accompanied by a ten-line holograph poem dated May 9, 1916.

Bound in an attractive copy nicely bound by the London firm Bickers & Son, the upper cover reproducing in brilliant gilt Sir Francis Drake's coat of arms.