[Mandeville Press, Hitchin.] Poetry collection 'Mandeville's Travellers', featuring work by Seamus Heaney; Bernard Bergonzi; Charles Tomlinson; Patric Dickinson; George Szirtes and others.

From the papers of Sarah Emmeline Hamilton, mistress of the poet Patric Dickinson. (His extraordinary correspondence with her, including 171 original and mostly-unpublished poems, 474 autograph letters and 349 post cards, is offered separately). See his obituary by John Mole’s in the Independent, 31 January 1994. The present item is 4to, and consists of 14 unpaginated pages over ten leaves. Stitched into brown wraps printed in black. Cover, title-page and colophon with illustrations from Sandys in brown, otherwise printed in black. Tastefully printed. In fair condition, lightly aged and worn, with slight staining on cover at head of spine. Contributors are: John Mole, Annemarie Austin, Ron Taylor, Seamus Heaney, Bernard Bergonzi , Robert Wells, David Constantine, Charles Tomlinson, Dick Davis, Joan Downar, John Gohorry, Deirdre Shanahan, Freda Downie, Patric Dickinson, George Szirtes, John Cotton, Paul Twivy Michael Riviere. The only copy on JISC not at a deposit library at UCL.