Y is for
You must wake and call me early
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| Initial 'Y' in Alfred Tennyson, Lyric Poems (Vale Press, 1900) |
Ricketts designed two different initials 'Y', the first one, done for Daphnis and Chloe (1893) was also used in the Vale Press Keats edition in 1898.
A smaller initial 'Y' appeared in Milton's Early Poems in 1896, and was used in several other Vale Press books. Its final appearance was in the edition of Tennyson's lyric poems, published at the end of 1900.
It is a five-line floral initial with twirling stems and small flowers.
