Cornford (Frances Crofts)

Poems, First Edition, presentation inscription to the artist Sir William Rothenstein on the first blank: ‘W. R. from F. C. C. March 1910’, with Rothenstein's bookplate to front pastedown, thin stain to upper edge of title, offsetting to endpapers, original cloth-backed boards, soiling and marking, The Priory Press, Hampstead, [1910].

***The poet’s first collection owed much to the influence of Rothenstein. He encouraged Cornford to write, rather than paint, and persuaded her father, Francis Darwin, to have her work published.