LIFE OF WILLIAM CONGREVE

by Edmund Gosse

$750 · Offered by Phillip J. Pirages

First edition · Signed

London: Walter Scott, 1888 . 172 x 117 mm. 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 . 192, ix 1 pp., 3 leaves ads . FIRST EDITION. Light olive green publisher's cloth, the front cover double ruled in navy blue and stamped with the title and author, the smooth spine with navy blue lettering and a quill rear pastedown perhaps replaced . INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on front free endpaper: Coventry Patmore,

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