COLLECTED POEMS BY ALFRED NOYES: Vols. I-II [with Misses Masters' cards]

by Noyes, A

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NY:: Stokes,, 1913. Both--hardcover; ink name/1917 date, & steel-engraved calling card--`The Misses Masters / Estherwood / Dobbs Ferry-on-Hudson' on both front endpapers; spine ends worn, top edges gilt (dull); cover tips bumped; fore & bottom edges untrimmed; contents good.. Pasted inside Vol. 1 front cover: 4.5x6-inch b&w prtd. bust portrait of Eliza Bailey Masters, likely cut from material issued by her `Masters School.' 7th prtg. of 1913 issue. Vol. I--Flower of Old Japan; Progress of Love; Forest of Wild Thyme; Drake. II--Enchanted Island; Sherwood; Tales of the Mermaid Tavern; New Poems. ||| Noyes (1880-1958) critic, essayist, poet; some of his work was set to music by Elgar. ||| Eliza Masters founded her girls' school in 1877; taught Math, Astronomy, & Latin rather than usual `finishing school' subjects. The Masters School still offers Liberal Arts courses, as when it started, some 130 years ago. ||| Together 2 vols.