New and Original Poems with Notes on Creation

[18], pp 104, 32 plates. Highly individual illustrated collection of poems and plates, some hand-colored some with unprinted guard sheets, described in the introductory testimonial as a 'book of Poems on the Creation of Man, and his sinless life in Eden... Mr. E Shillito is likely, by his Poems, to induce many persons to read for themselves the Sacred History...' Smart red morocco gilt binding, rebacked; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Engraved title page with decorative border printed on mauve paper; each of the first leaves for the days of creation is printed on coloured paper with a floral border. Worldcat locates BL, Princeton and Duke only.