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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. xxi, 40 pp., tall 4to, quarter Linson vellum, Curwen patterned-paper sides, gilt spine title. No dustjacket. The two-color frontispiece line drawing is by Lynton Lamb. Printed by Will Carter at his Rampant Lions Press. Six hundred numbered copies were issued; this copy out of series. Good copy; contents clean and bright, small bump to head of spine, couple of small scuff marks on cover, cover corners and some edges a little rubbed. Carter 37.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). A limited edition printing of Christopher Smart's 'Song to David', issued by the Rampant Lions Press. This copy previously owned by Bloomsbury Group member, Roger Senhouse. Limited edition of 600 copies, of which this no. 132. From the Rampant Lion's Press.In the publisher's quarter paper vellum, with decorative paper covered boards.With the publisher's prospectus loosely inserted.'A Song to David', likely written during confinement for insanity in St. Luke's Hospital, is a 1763 poem by Christopher Smart. Although it received mixed reviews, it remained his most famous work until the discovery of Jubilate Agno, also written during this confinement.This limited edition edited by J. B. Broadbent, a literary critic.With an illustrated frontispiece. Previously owned by Roger Senhouse (1899-1970) an English publisher and translator and a peripheral member of the Bloomsbury Group. The private letters of writer and Bloomsbury Group memberLytton Stracheyreveal that Senhouse was his (last) lover, and with whom in the late "20s and early 1930s he had asado-masochisticsexual relationship. In the publisher's quarter paper vellum, with decorative paper covered boards.Externally, very smart, with slight yellowing to the paper vellum and rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Small ownership bookplate of one Richard Luckett to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with minor spotting to the endpapers. Very Good. book.