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Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: xix + 387pp, illustrated. POS dated 1901 on ffep, dated 1874 on first blank and dated 1864 on title page. Scattered foxing. Very good hardback in green, contemporary, full morocco with raised bands and elaborate decoration in gilt to spine and boards.
Seller: Elaine Beardsell, HOLMFIRTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$481.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A beautifully bound collection of the best examples of British poetry from the last few centuries, illustrated throughout with detailed engravings. The first edition of this work.A collection of fantastic and moving examples of English poetry, containing poems by Lord Byron, Robert Burns, William Cowper, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, and more.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and in-text engravings, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.Collected by Robert Aris Willmostt.Prior owner's ink inscription of Cecilia Roberts to the recto to the front endpaper. In a full morocco binding. Externally, generally smart, with light rubbing to the boards and spine. Minor fading to the spine. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with some spots. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$513.31 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full morocco, 9 inches tall. A splendid Victorian binding by Hayday with raised bands and dense and elaborate gilt tooling to the panels. Gilt dentelles and all edges. Wide gilt rolls frame the boards. Engraved throughout. A degree of foxing. From the Library and with the bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst. An interesting anthology in a fine example of this type of binding.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom