First edition. 8vo., original green cloth, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.
The dedication copy, inscribed by the author: "Wilfrid, his book, from P. Virgilius Maro, C Day Lewis with love feb. 23. 1963". The printed dedication is to Wilfrid Cowley, a friend of Day Lewis's from his days at Oxford. Peter Stanford writes in Day Lewis's biography that Cowley's "fondness for dressing like Byron and his knowledge of literary and political gossip" earned him the nickname 'The Baron'. A near fine copy in a browned dust jacket.
