Salix Babylonia. The Weeping Willow

by Richard Wellesley, 1st Marquis Wellesley

$750 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

N.p., n.d. Fern Hill, Windsor: privately printed, 1839. . First printing? Certainly the first separate printing. Large 8vo, pp. 4 ; bound in contemporary, and likely original, purple velvet-covered boards, maroon morocco label lettered in gilt on upper cover; recently rebacked; the boards worn, with loss to the velvet, corners worn, but text clean and the binding sound. The text leaves show signs of having been folded. The blank flyleaves show no signs of

• Binding: Leather

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