All Things Considered.

Roche (Paul)

All Things Considered.

Description: FIRST EDITION, frontispiece portrait of the author by Duncan Grant, with the author's corrections to poems on pp. 76-7, 91, 95 (see below), pp. 128, foolscap 8vo, original green boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, bookplate to front pastedown, dustjacket repeating frontispiece illustration, very good

Publication Details: Duckworth, 1966

Notes: Inscribed by the author on the flyleaf : 'for Helen & Oliver, September 1975, Paul Roche'. Some of the author's corrections (seen also in other signed copies) reflect poetic decisions, others simply typographical errors ('mildweed' to 'mildewed'). At the foot of the flyleaf is a squiggle that could be read as the initials 'D.G', though it is not in the usual style of signing for Duncan Grant, the illustrator here - to whom Roche was a companion and muse in the latter part of his life.