THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
by PALGRAVE, Francis Turner, 1824-1897 - editor :
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861. First edition : mixed issue - with the four (rather than six) notes on p.323, obviously indicating the earlier printing, but with the gothic (rather than plain) half-title. The original appearance of a perennial favourite - close on 300 of the finest poems in the language from seventy-five or so poets - from Sir Thomas Wyatt, Marlowe and Shakespeare, to Shelley and Keats. With a preface and some extensive notes by Palgrave. Foolscap 8vo (162 x 103mm). [4],[viii],332pp. Engraved vignette by Charles Henry Jeens (1827-1879) after Thomas Woolner (1825-1892). Bound in an elegant recent half green morocco, banded and gilt - retaining the original cloth spine and upper panel (by Burn) at rear (the Carter "C" unpriced variant, although Carter makes a case of probability not certainty for the ordering of the variants); contrasting label (erroneously lettered "The Golden Treasures"); marbled sides; some occasional light spotting, but overall a very good copy. Contemporary (1862) pencilled ownership inscription of Marion Campbell of Edinburgh. The tickets of both Burn and the Edinburgh bookseller William Pattison Kennedy (1804?-1877) neatly reinserted.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22523
- Title
- THE GOLDEN TREASURY OF THE BEST SONGS AND LYRICAL POEMS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.
- Author
- PALGRAVE, Francis Turner, 1824-1897 - editor :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, Poetry, Fine Binding
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Ash Rare Books. Founded in 1946 and long one of London's more interesting small book businesses. Owned and run by Laurence Worms, former President of the ABA.
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- Cloth
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- Morocco
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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