The book of the rose

London: R. Brimley Johnson, 1904. First U.K. Edition. Cloth. Very good/missing. A very good First U.K. Edition. Inscribed by the author on the first free endpaper in 1910. Blue cloth boards with gilt title stamping on spine. Tes streak near lower spine. Heavily bumped lower corners and moderately rubbed upper corners. Offset and toning to endpapers and pastedowns. Deckled fore edge. 1, 83 pages 1 plate. Twelvemo. All proceeds from this sale go to The Shalom Free Clinic, providing healthcare services to the uninsured and underinsured in Chico, California. 'The Book of the Rose' is a collection of poems, including 'The Wisdom of Love', 'The Covert', 'Invocation', and many more. Charles G. D. Roberts was born on 10th January 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, Canada. Roberts's most successful literary genre was that of the animal story which featured in works such as Earth's Enigmas (1896) and Eyes of the Wilderness (1933). "Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts, KCMG, FRSC was a Canadian poet and prose writer who is known as the Father of Canadian Poetry. He was "almost the first Canadian author to obtain worldwide reputation and influence; he was also a tireless promoter and encourager of Canadian literature.... He publishednumerous works on Canadian exploration and natural history, verse, travel books, and fiction." "At his death he was regarded as Canada's leading man ofletters."Besides his own body of work, Roberts is also called the "Father of Canadian Poetry" because he served as an inspiration and a source of assistance for otherCanadian poets of his time." --Poetry Finder