A Sketch Of The Career Of Richard F Burton Collected From Men Of Eminence From Sir Richard And Lady

by Richard F Burton Alfred Bates Richards Andrew Wilson St Clair Baddeley

$1,250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

First edition

First edition. An expansion of the extremely rare Sketch By An Old Oxonian of 1880. Photographic frontispiece portrait of Burton by Kingsbury & Notcutt, Woodbury-print by Waterlow & Sons. iv , 96 pp. 1 vols. Small 8vo. Original glazed black boards with Burton's signature stamped in gilt, black cloth spine. Spine repaired, flyleaves darkened, still a very good copy of a fragile book. Penzer pp. 304-6 rare .

• Binding: Hardcover

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