Yale Center for British Art

Creator:

Warner, Sylvia Townsend, 1893-1978

Title:

Azrael & other poems / Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Alternate Title(s):

Azrael and other poems

Published / Created:

Newbury, Berkshire : Libanus Press, 1978.

Physical Description:

[18] p. ; 29 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 102
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss

Copyright Status:

Related Content:

View finding aid for the Roger W. Moss Collection of manuscript, original art and printed material by and about Richard Shirley Smith http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/ycba.mss.0017

Classification:

Books

Notes:

"This collection of poems was first circulated in typescript by Sir Peter Pears at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1977. The author was approached for permission to print them in their present form and this was granted shortly before her death in May, 1978. This volume is dedicated to her memory. The book was made at the Libanus Press ... is hand-set in Perpetua Italic, and limited to 200 copies, one half printed on T.H. Saunders paper, the other on Velin Arches."--Colophon.

"Richard Shirley Smith's 'cone and ribbons' Libanus Press logo [1975; Bain no. 235] used on the colophon page and on the prospectus produced by the press ...'"--Moss.

Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 102

Bain, I. Wood engravings of Richard Shirley Smith, 235

BAC: British Art Center copy no. 140 of 200. Bound in publisher's original printed wrappers. Publisher's printed prospectus for this work laid in.

Contents:

Azrael -- Dorset endearments -- In April -- Ballad story -- Graveyard in Norfolk -- Earl Cassilis's lady -- December 31st. St. Silvester -- Gloriana dying -- A journey by night.

Form/Genre:

Wood engravings. | Poetry. | Prospectuses.

Contributors:

Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner. | Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver. | Libanus Press, publisher.