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Runciman, Thomas.
Songs, Sonnets & Miscellaneous Poems.
Publisher: Privately printed for Walter Runciman at Temple Sheen Press,
Date of Publication: 1922
Stock Code: 8360
LIMITED EDITION of 150 copies only, printed by Arthur Salvin on Kelmscott handmade paper. Quarto, pp. 43, [1]. Full purple morocco by Riviere & Son with two raised bands and gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, gilt dentelles. Three copies of the same captioned photographic portrait of Runciman laid-in (each image approx, 13 cm x 9 cm on paper 26 cm x 22 cm). Wear with minor loss to leather at spine tips and corners. Slight foxing to endpapers; no annotation or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. Thomas Runciman (1841-1909) was a Northumbrian landscape and portrait artist, and a pupil of William Bell Scott; his poems were never published but were sent to family and friends and are here privately printed along with others found by relatives in scrapbooks and letters. Introductory note by descendant Walter Runciman, who commissioned the publication. £175.00