The Year's at the Spring: An Anthology of Poetry Illustrated by Harry Clarke

2 & 3 Portsmouth St. Kingsway, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1920. Stated at copyright: "First published September 1920". Dated MCMXX at title page. Large 8" x 10 1/4" gift book design. Rare illustrated edition in original wrapper. Beige full cloth boards, black cover and spine titles, moderate shelf wear, bump. Cover and spine feature crisp red patterned decorative designs. Pages generally near fine, clean. Antiquarian pictorial bookplate inside cover w/scrolled text: "Who can number the sands of the sea and the drops of rain and the days of eternity? Ex-Libris, Dororthy Violet Burch". Plate depicts owl-topped column in over bordered ocean scene, with hour glass and open book. Adjacent this bookplate are fifteen beautiful signatures of apparent women's university: "From V. C., Autumn Term, 1921". Bind good; hinges intact. Beautifully illustrated throughout by Harry Clarke featuring two dozen plates in color and two dozen in b&w w/monochromatic colored elements. Vignettes and partial-page imagery throughout. Clarke's brilliant imagery presents as art nouveau with some transitioning to art deco. Original tan pictorial wrapper, moderate shelf wear, spine chip, rub; protected in new clear sleeve. Harry Clarke illustrated wrapper features titles at cover and spine. Front panel features enchanting maiden dispersing flower petals floating to floral border design; stylized bowl of fruit at back center also surrounded by same floral border. Sharp very good first edition of this illustrated gem in rare original wrapper. Contributing poetry includes pieces from: H. H. Abbott, J. Redwood Anderson, Hilaire Belloc, E. J. Brady, Rupert Brooke, P. R. Chalmers, G. K. Chesterton, Mary E. Coleridge, Frances Cornford, W. H. Davies, Walter De la Mare, John Drinkwater, Helen Parry Eden, James E. Flecker, Rose Fyleman, W. W. Gibson, Robert Graves, Juann Grenfell, Thomas Hardy, Ralph Hodgson, Teresa Hooley, Lionel Johnson, Margaret Mackenzie, John Masefield, Irene McLeod, Auce Meynell, Harold Monro, Sarojini Naidu, H. D. C. Pepler, Queenie Scott-Hopper, James Stephens, E. W. Tennant, E. Thomas, R. E. Vernede, L. D'O. Walters, Sir William Watson, Marion St. John Webb, W. By. Yeats, and, Francis Brett Young. Clarke (March 17, 1889-1931) was a famed Irish book illustrator and stained glass artist. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Printed in Great Britain by Turnbull & Spears, Edinburgh. 128 pages. Insured post.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Clarke, Harry. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.