MARY

to Chief Commander Quinn with best wishes for Christmas and 1943, beginning with John of Gaunt's speech 'This royal throne of kings...', and continuing with verses from Elizabethan to modern poets, with very fine woodblock illustrations by Clifford Webb and seven other artists, in strong black and white, covers printed in dark red and blue decorated with a sailing ship and images of the countryside, 16 sides 8¾ x 5½, published by The Medici Society, London, 1942 (first in 1937), the inscription no place, no date but