Four Quartets - T. S. Eliot 1996 - The Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge - Limited Edition A fine large private press presentation of what Eliot himself considered to be his finest work. Designed and printed by Sebastian Carter, who has inscribed and dated this particular copy to the authors Jill Paton Walsh, Baroness Hemingford and her husband John Rowe Townsend.

Number 32 of 200 large folios from the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, England. Elegantly hand-bound and printed on handmade paper, and in fine matching slipcase.

Four Quartets’ is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in ’The Waste Land’. First published individually from 1936 to 1942.

Here, in four linked poems (’
Burnt Norton’, ‘East Coker’, ‘The Dry Salvages’, and ‘Little Gidding’), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought.

Four Quartets’ is the culminating achievement by a man many feel to be the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.
  Provenance:- Gillian Honorine Mary Herbert, Baroness Hemingford, CBE, FRSL (1937-2020), known professionally as Jill Paton Walsh, was an English novelist and children's writer. She may be known best for her Booker prize-nominated novel Knowledge of Angels and the Peter Wimsey–Harriet Vane mysteries that have completed and continued the work of Dorothy L. Sayers

John Rowe Townsend (1922-2014) was not only a dominant figure in the academic study of children's literature, but, as the author of Gumble's Yard (1961), a seminal influence on the development of the modern children's book, as well as ‘
The Intruder’ which won a 1971 Edgar Award.

References: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Neil Genzlinger,
The New York Times. Stephanie Nettell, The Guardian.

Large folio (book size 38.2x29cm), pp. [12] 47 [5].
  Bound by the Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, England, in quarter buckram boards, with boards covered with paste paper specially designed by Victoria Hall, Norwich.   Condition: Fine in fine slipcase   Ref: 111160   Price: HK$ 9,000