Five Poems 1470-1870. An Elementary Essay on the Background of English Literature

by E. M W. Tillyard

£75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Chatto and Windus, 1948. Literary criticism FIRST EDITION. Octavo 22 x 14cm , pp.viii; 127 1 . With five monochrome halftone plates. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 8s 6d to front flap. Internally clean, some gentle spotting to endpapers. With the blue ink ownership signature of English poet John Harvey to front flyleaf. Small bookseller's label to front pastedown. Spotting to textblock

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