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The Poetical Works, of MILTON, SHELLEY, BYRON, WORDSWORTH, POPE in 5 Vols Uniform Deluxe Binding
by MILTON, SHELLEY, BYRON, WORDSWORTH, POPE Edited By William Michael Rossetti
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Ward Lock & Co (3500 gram rate, so 3.5 X standard cost) uniform set published by Ward Lock and sometimes also Bowden, green cloth bevelled edges, black decoration to boards, extra gilt to spines, all edges gilt, decorative endpapers, tissue frontis guards, illustrated, 1- The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, edited with a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, illustrated by Thomas Seccombe, xxxix 600pp, minor pencil to margins of a few pages; 2- The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, edited with by William Michael Rossetti, xiv 568pp + frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top edge; 3- The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, edited with a memoir, by William Michael Rossetti, vii 604pp+ frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top edge; 4- The Poetical Works of John Milton, edited by William Michael Rossetti, viii 460pp + frontis, tissue guard; 5- The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by William Michael Rossetti, xxiv 616pp + frontis, tissue guard slightly stained to top edge, late Victorian or early twentieth century issue in a beautiful uniform set, with only very minor reading wear, hinges very slightly loose but not cracked, sold as a set. reprint. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Thomas Seccombe. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.
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- Bookseller
- Fortuna Books
(NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007872
- Title
- The Poetical Works, of MILTON, SHELLEY, BYRON, WORDSWORTH, POPE in 5 Vols Uniform Deluxe Binding
- Author
- MILTON, SHELLEY, BYRON, WORDSWORTH, POPE Edited By William Michael Rossetti
- Illustrator
- Thomas Seccombe
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- reprint
- Publisher
- Ward Lock & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Keywords
- British Poetry Literature Deluxe Gilt Gift Edition Uniform Decorator Set William Michael Rossetti
- Bookseller catalogs
- POETRY;
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About Fortuna Books
Est 1999 e.v. and specialising in the occult, new age and metaphysics as well as religion and mythology, we also stock general fiction and non-fiction. Our shop which was upstairs in the Olympia Building, accessed via Shand's Emporium, was lost in the 2012 earthquakes, and we are currently mail order only.
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- Cracked
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- Reprint
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- Jacket
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