The Science of English Verse
$1,250 · Offered by Bartleby's Books
First edition · Signed
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1880. First edition. 8vo. xxii, 2 , 21 -315, 6, ads pp. Explores the connections between musical notation and meter in poetry. Inscribed by Lanier on a front endpaper Judge George William Brown / with the regards of / the author / Baltimore, / May 1880 ; Brown 1812-1890 was mayor of Baltimore at the outbreak of the Civil War and was serving as chief judge of the Baltimore courts when this presentation was made. BAL
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