Poems and letters

A$550 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Limited edition

London : Chiswick Press, 1879. Quarto, full polished calf by Riviere and Sons, with their binder s stamp, spine in compartments with raised bands, ruled and ornamented in gilt, contrasting morocco title label lettered in gilt, light edge rubbing and a few small stamps, all edges gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, foxing to preliminaries, pp. xvi; 415, decorative initials, head and tail pieces, with four original photographs bound in. A finely bound volume of the works of the notable eighteenth century Cambridge poet, best known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard , first published in 1751.

• Binding: Hardcover

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