84pp. Stiff card covers with red lettering. 8vo. Covers are unevenly faded, gently rubbed at edges and a little scuffed at spine ends. Some spotting on text block edges and first and last few pages. Front hinge cracked, else neat, clean and tight.
Reginald John Farrer (1880-1920) was an alpine plant collector, gardener and garden writer, his style of garden writing profoundly influencing the way future writers treated the top. His novels were not so good. Notable for their sharp, sometimes maliciously observed asides regarding aristocratic lifestyles, none were well received by critics. He returned to London where, during the first world war, he worked in John Buchan's Ministry of Information, but he was disgusted by the propogandist journalism it produced. This is his verse drama.
