THE COLLECTED POEMS OF ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE IN TWO VOLUMES by WAITE, Arthur Edward (1857-1942) - 1914

First Edition. Medium 8vo (9 x 6 ins) pp xxxvi, [352] + ix, 352, vii. Photographic portrait frontispiece, by F.A. Swaine) In the original publisher's white cloth with gilt title lettering to spine, spines somewhat darkened; upper boards decorated with an arresting cross design in gilt lines with four-petal floral emblems and central orange tudor rose. Top edges of the text block gilt, fore edges untrimmed. Boards slightly rubbed at extremities with a couple of small stains to spine of vol II. Internally unmarked. An extremely clean and bright set of this uncommon work by Waite, a scholarly mystic poet and investigator into the history of western occultism.