Verses by A.E. Housman, Illustrations by Ann Arnold

Thirty-two pages, 11 x 8.5 inches
Printed at Puritan Capital, Hollis, New Hampshire.
Production by Elvira Piedra.
Published in a softcover edition of 500 copies by Stinehour Editions, 2017.

A celebration of the insatiable fowls of Woodchester House, A.E. Housman's bread-and-butter poem written into the Wise family guestbook comes to life in Ann Arnold’s delightful illustrations, whose vibrant reds and deep blacks are faithfully reproduced on Mohawk Superfine paper. Written in May of 1902, the text originally appeared in an article entitled "The Poet as House-Guest: some unpublished verse of A.E. Housman" by Fraser Bragg Drew in the University of Indiana's Lilly Library exhibition catalogue, A.E. Housman: a collection of manuscripts, letters, proofs, first editions, etc... published in 1961. The present publication contains a brief text by Ian Jackson who wrote in addition a scholarly commentary on Housman's verses to accompany the book. It can be obtained directly from the author at ianjacksonbooks.com.

Ann Arnold has illustrated five books for children: Alice Waters’s Fanny at Chez Panisse (HarperCollins, 1992) and its sequel, Fanny in France (Viking, 2016), Sara London’s Firehorse Max (HarperCollins, 1997), and two books of her own: The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2002) and Sea Cows, Shamans and Scurvy: Alaska’s First Naturalist: Georg Wilhelm Steller (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2008). Her illustrations for The Adventurous Chef: Alexis Soyer were recently acquired by UCLA.
Prints of a few of her sumi-e drawings are available here. Learn more about Ann in Wrestling An Angel, a film by Jonathan Villet and Fiona McDougall.

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