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Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, London, United KingdomMaggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA

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First edition. 8vo. viii, 112 pp. Early twentieth century blue morocco, spine with five single raised bands outlined in gilt, second and third panels lettered in gilt, the rest elaborately tooled in gilt, covers with a gilt fillet border and central gilt panel with floral tooling, top edge gilt, blue cloth endpapers. London, Shury.   Monk Lewis?s scarce final work, appearing the month after the death of his father.   In 1815, ?Lewis then departed on a continental tour which lasted for a year and a half, visiting Byron and the Shelley circle at the Villa Diodati in Geneva during August 1816. Here he made a translation for Byron (whom he had first met in 1813) of part 1 of Goethe's Faust, which influenced the latter's Manfred and other works.? (ODNB).   A handsome, wide margined copy, joints only a little rubbed.

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Title
Poems.
Author
LEWIS (Matthew Gregory)
Publication year
1812
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
1st Edition

Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA

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Established in 1853, Maggs Brothers is one of the world's oldest antiquarian booksellers still operating today. We sell books worldwide through the internet as well as from our regularly published catalogues, and we are delighted to welcome customers to our two premises in Bloomsbury and Mayfair.

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Travel Books, illustrated books, Illuminated manuscripts and miniatures, Bookbindings, Continental books including incunabula, Fine printing, Autographs and Manuscripts, English-language literature of all periods, books of the Far East including Japanese photobooks

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