From Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
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THREE VOLUMES. 8vo. 4.5 x 6.5 inches. Vol. I, 299 pp.; Vol. II, 296 pp.; Vol. III, 307 pp. Bound in original half green morocco over marbled boards; spine in compartments with raised band, decorated gilt with contrasting maroon and brown title labels, gilt. Endpapers and all edges marbled. Slight wear to extremities and a little foxing, largely confined to preliminaries; otherwise a very good clean copy. An Edition of Dryden's poems with a long introductory memoir and careful annotations by Robert Bell (1800-67). Bell moved from Ireland to London in 1828 and made his reputation as a journalist and literary editor. His English poets series in the same format as the Dryden, was issued in twenty four volumes, 1854-57, and expanded to twenty nine volumes in 1866. A relatively scarce title, handsomely bound. ART / LITERATURE POETRY POETRY 17TH CENTURY FINE BINDING ART / LITERATURE. Seller Inventory # 24714
Bibliographic Details
Title: THE POEMS OF JOHN DRYDEN. Edited with a ...
Publisher: Charles Griffin and Co. Stationers' Hall Court. [1854], London
Publication Date: 1854
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