Woman in White. Poems by Emily Dickinson. Edited by J. D. McClatchy. With Wood engravings by Jane Lydbury. London: The Folio Society, 1991. Tall 8vo in hardcover, topedge gilt. 63 pages. Fine clean copy
First-ever translation into English of the legendary book of poetry “BLOD” written by the Danish art historian and publisher R. Broby-Johansen in 1922, for which publication he was sentenced to jail for its sexual immorality: In vivid and gory details, the poems depict the red-light district of Copenhagen’s underbelly. In…