Laus Veneris, and other Poems and Ballads

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

$150 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First American edition, marked Author's Edition on verso of title. viii, 328 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original burnt orange, blue edges. Shelfweat to head and foot of spine. Internally Fine. Wise 32, Why the book was published under the above title is difficult to say. Possibly...the publisher looked to excite a larger sale of the book by distinctly showing that the most notorious poem was not excluded... Item #61327

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