261. Dust-Jackets on Ricketts's books (4): Poems Dramatic and Lyrical

The dust-jackets on books designed by Charles Ricketts come in different styles: plain wrappers, wrappers with spine titles, and printed wrappers repeating Ricketts's binding design.

In March 1893 Elkin Mathews and John Lane co-published a book with Macmillan and Company in New York: Poems Dramatic and Lyrical By John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley. The book was issued in a dust-jacket with the spine printed in blue.

John Leicester Warren Lord de Tabley, Poems Dramatic and Lyrical (1893):
copy with dust-jacket (showing difference between binding and jacket design)

The jacket was printed in blue, and the paper originally was blue as well, but has darkened to brownish grey.

Ricketts's design has not been repeated on the spine, instead the title, author's name, price and names of the English publishers appear on the spine in a typeface that was not used for the text of the book.

POEMS | DRAMATIC | AND | LYRICAL || LORD | DE TABLAY || 7/6 | NETT || ELKIN MATHEWS | AND | JOHN LANE

The author's name in misspelled Lord de Tablay (read: Tabley).

The Bodleian Library (Oxford) holds a copy that has part of the spine of the jacket pasted in.