A Treasury of English Sonnets edited From the Original Sources with Notes and Illustration by David M. Main
by Main, David M., editor
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
New York: Hurst and Co, 1893. Hardcover. Very Good. viii, 470 p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Green cloth with white spine and cover titles and decoration; oval color illustrated pastedown on front cover. Includes notes, index of authors, and index of first lines. No date of publication. Copyright 1887 by R. Worthington, who went out of business in 1893; presumably Hurst bought it from Worthington no later than that year. "The aim of this work is to provide students and lovers of good poetry with a comprehensive Selection of the best original Sonnets known to the Editor, written by native English poets not living; and to illustrate it from English poetical and prose literature." -- Preface, p. vii. In Very Good Condition: most of white lacking from spine; spine is lightly soiled; pages are clean and tight.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- A Treasury of English Sonnets edited From the Original Sources with Notes and Illustration by David M. Main
- Author
- Main, David M., editor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Hurst and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1893
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- Poetry;
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