Prometheus: The Firegiver

This play “on the Greek model” was the first work by Robert Bridges that Daniel printed, and it would lead to several more collaborations between poet and printer. This copy has been embellished by an unidentified artist with four marginal pen and ink drawings in a style reminiscent of William Blake illustrating scenes from the play’s prologue. It is accompanied by preparatory sketches on stationery from “Adbury House, Newbury,” the home of British musicologist Godfrey E.P. Arkwright (1864-1944). Arkwright was both a friend of Bridges, sharing his interest in early church music, and a collector of Daniel Press books. The copy was later owned by Roger Senhouse (1899-1970), lover of Lytton Strachey of the Bloomsbury Group.