Daphne De Waal - Soldiers Immortal and Other Poems - First Edition Food & Drink dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey

dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey

one of the many ground breaking innovations introduced by Sir Rowland Hill

The photograph that is the basis for the engraving here was taken by Oscar Gustave Rejlander who provided many of the portrait photographs for The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals published two years previously

London: Radio Times

Bill (1895-1971)

Daphne De Waal - Soldiers Immortal and Other Poems - First Edition Food & Drink dust-jacket designed by Raymond HawkeyDE WAAL, Daphne (1896 1971). Soldiers Immortal and Other Poems. Capetown: T. Maskew Miller, 1917. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. 63; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt to spine and upper, top edge gilt, tail and fore edges untrimmed. Internally clean, some foxing to endpapers. Cloth rubbed and marked. Very good. A collection of poetry inspired by the Great War, published in South Africa but printed in London.