THOUGHTS AND FANCIES Poems and Occasional Verses.

First edition. Original green cloth with gilt titles and decorations to the spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. With four tissue-guarded illustrations by the author and a few further in-text illustrations and vignettes. A very good copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth a little rubbed to the extremities. The lightly toned contents, with a little spotting to the text block fore-edge, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions.

John Cotton was an architect, poet and artist who was born in Bromsgrove and lived much of his life in Birmingham. He designed many significant buildings throughout the midlands, including churches, schools and hospitals.