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Lyra Celtica; an anthology of representative Celtic poetry ... ancient Irish, Alban, Gaelic, Breton, Cymric, and Modern Scottish and Irish Celtic PoetrySassoon (Hester) [Mrs Siegfried Sassoon]. Edited by E.A. Sharp and J. Matthay, with an introduction and notes by William Sharp John Grant, Edinburgh, 1924 Second Edition, revised and enlarged Original blue blind stamped cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, patterned end-papers Slight foxing throughout and edges of leaves a little darkened, otherwise a nice copy. From the Library of Hester Sassoon [née Gatty], bearing her autograph Hester Gatty signature, dated 1925, on a preliminary blank Hester Gatty was born in 1906, the daughter of Sir Stephen and Lady Katherine Gatty. She met and married Siegfried Sassoon in 1933. Although they separated after the birth of their son, George, they never divorced. She died in 1973. Price: £60 <<Back |