ALFRED AUSTIN VICTORIAN

by Alfred Austin, Norton B. Crowell

A$50 · Offered by Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

Pp. x+296, frontispiece, bibliography, index; bottom fore-corner of boards slightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, back panel lightly foxed; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves slightly foxed; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, 1955. First edition. *Alfred Austin is remembered as the writer of some of the worst verse in the English language. He was the object of sneers and jibes by contemporaries such as Tennyson and Swinburne, and was the butt of

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