A PSALM OF LIFE in gilt right, rural inset with silver birch above forget-me-nots

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Set

Poetry booklet, THE KING & QUEEN & PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES, No place of manufacture, various

Set Comment

logo over TRADE MARK --PUBLISHERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES THE KING AND QUEEN AND T.R.H. THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES -- RAPHAEL TUCK & SONS LTD -- LONDON - PARIS - NEW YORK


Title

A PSALM OF LIFE in gilt right, rural inset with silver birch above forget-me-nots

In set

PW poetry

Item Comment

oblong cover & 4 sheets secured by staples single folds, embossed inside first right:-A PSALM OF LIFE second left:--TELL ME NOT, IN MOURNFUL NUMBERS, LIFE IS BUT AN EMPTY DREAM! FOR THE SOUL IS DEAD THAT SLUMBERS AND THINGS ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM. third left ART IS LONG, AND TIME IS FLEETING, AND OUR HEARTS THOUGH STOUT AND BRAVE, STILL LIKE MUFFLED DRUMS ARE BEATING FUNERAL MARCHES TO THE GRAVE: 4 sides of text-see scans

Type

Booklet

Author

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

Size

7.8 x 13 cm.

Topics

Floral Forget Me Nots Poetry Rural Inset