Gems of National Poetry.

£80 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

Handsomely bound in full pebble-grain morocco for the Bradford Modern School, this 'Albion Edition' contains works by Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Lord Byron, Edmund Spenser, John Donne, and John Milton. This anthology was compiled and edited by Laura Valentine, best known by her pen name 'Mrs. Valentine' and the author of numerous Victorian children's books. 8vo (20 x 14 cm); prize bookplate to front pastedown, minimal foxing to prelims, otherwise very good internal condition; full brown pebble-grain morocco with central 'Bradford Modern School' insignia in gilt to upper boards, double fillet border in gilt and blind, spine gilt in 6 compartments with gilt lettering to second, minor wear to extremities, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, very good; xiv, 533 pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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