Laugh, and the World laughs with you
Poems of Passion and Pleasure
Gay & Hancock, 1912.
First deluxe edition with illustrations by Dudley Tennant. 4to. Number 10 of 500 copies signed by both poet and artist. Cream vellum with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge gilt. Twenty tipped in colour plates under captioned tissue guards. A very good copy indeed, with slight dustiness to the vellum, fresh and bright internally.
Wilcox's now famous poem " Solitude", which begins with the lines, "Laugh, and the World laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone;" is included in this book of verse.
Stock ID: 42932
