Poems of William Wordsworth

Wordsworth, William

Verlag: George Routledge & Co, London, 1859

Beschreibung

Small 4to. [14], 1-387, [3] pp. Glazed contemporary purple pebble-grain cloth, bevelled boards with several gilt and black borders and gilt decorations on the boards, brilliant gilt decorations to the turn-ins, spine in six compartments with gilt lettering and decorations; all edges gilt. Beautiful textured blue, white, and gold endpapers and pastedowns. The bookbinder's ticket of Henry Miller of New York on the rear pastedown. With a frontispiece and in-text designs (100 wood engravings total) by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, and John Gilbert, engraved by the brothers Dalziel. Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott. Reed A110. Spawn & Kinsella 208-209. One of many collections of Wordsworth's poetry that have been published over the centuries, but this is the first edition thus of Routledge's profusely illustrated volume of the Romantic poet's work. A later bookplate on the front pastedown, scattered foxing to the pageblock. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000013119

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Poems of William Wordsworth

Verlag: George Routledge & Co, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1859

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good+

Auflage: Later edition.