SALT, H.S. [Henry Stephens]

Songs of Freedom. Selected & Edited, with an Introduction, by H.S. Salt

London: Walter Scott Publishing Co., N.d. [c. 1902]. No edition or printing stated. Square 12mo (15cm); full deep blue cloth; printed paper spine label; xxvi,345,[12]pp; text block edges uncut. Few minor spots of soil to cloth; spine label a shade darkened, still tight, straight and Very Good. In the publisher's series "The Canterbury Poets." Our conjectural date of 1902 is based on titles listed in the rear ads.

Anthology of poems chosen to "...present an adequate collection of English and American poems illustrative of the growth of the revolutionary ideal – national, social, and intellectual – during the past hundred years." Salt (1852-1939) was a noted British social reformer, probably best-remembered as an early advocate of animal rights. The collection includes works by Ernest Jones, Ebenezer Elliott, Whitman, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Walter Crane, Edward Carpenter, many others.

Price: $50.00

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