The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1918. [ZAEHNSDORF FINE BINDING]
ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH
From MFR RARE BOOKS, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since 31 July 2024
From MFR RARE BOOKS, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 31 July 2024
About this Item
New edition. Leather bound. Hardcover. Octavo (19cm x 12.5cm), pp. [xxxii], 1166. English text printed on india paper. Exquisitely bound by Zaehnsdorf (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet) in full red morocco. Spine with five raised bands, gilt centre tools and lettering in the second compartment. Board edges gilt ruled. Inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy. Neat contemporary inscription to fep. Notes: Early edition of Quiller-Couch's collection of English poetry, first published in 1900, in a handsome signed binding. "This volume soon became the standard anthology of English verse and sold nearly a million volume during Quiller-Couch's lifetime" (ODNB). From the library of Stacy Lloyd III, with gift inscription form his mother, the billionaire heiress, Bunny Mellon. Seller Inventory # MFR0390
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1918. ...
Publisher: Oxford at the Clarendon Press
Publication Date: 1949
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
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