THREE VOLUMES BOUND IN ONE. BEAUTIFUL COPY. LEATHER CORNERS AND LEATHER SPINE. MARBLED BOARDS. SERRATED EDGES TO PAGES. ONLY 100 COPIES PRINTED. TO:- CHARLES ABBOTT ESQ. BARRISTER AT LAW – THE COMPANION & FRIENDLY COMPETITOR OF HIS INCIPIENT STUDIES. THE ASSOCIATE OF HIS BOYISH DAYS. THE CHOSEN JUDGE OF THE LITERARY EFFORTS OF HIS FIRST MANHOOD AND HIS LATEST ADVISER IN THE DISCHARGE OF AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC DUTY. THIS NEW EDITION OF DAVISON`S POETICAL RHAPSODY AS AN OFFERING TO THAT TASTE FOR THE SIMPLICITY OF OUR OLD LITERATURE WHICH THE MORE SERIOUS AND PERPLEXING OCCUPATIONS OF HIS TIME CANNOT EXTINGUISH IS DEDICATED BY SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES. MAY NEED EXTRA POSTAGE IF SENT OUTSIDE THE UK.
A FINE COPY. BOUND IN QUARTER BLACK CLOTH PRINTED ON MOULD-FREE PAPER TOP EDGES GILT GLASSERINE WRAPPER EDITED AND ILLUSTRATED BY PETER FORSTER. 112 PAGES. VERY SCARCE.
A VERY GOOD COPY IN ORANGE BOARDS BUT WITH A GRUBBY AND TORN DUSTWRAP. LIMITED TO 1000 COPIES BUT NOT NUMBERED. FORMING PART OF THE PRIVATE JOURNAL OF HID LORDSHIP SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY DESTROYED BY THOMAS MORE TO WHICH IS ADDED LEON TO ANNABELLA AN EPISTLE FROM LORD BYRON TO LADY BYRON.VERY SCARCE.
SECOND EDITION. IN A FINE BINDING OF FULL RED LEATHER RAISED BANDS GILT MARBLED ENDPAPERS. FOUR VOLUMES IN ONE. TITLE PAGES HEAVILY FOXED FOXING TO PARTS OF BOOK 3 OTHERWISE CLEAN AND TIGHTLY BOUND. TWO BOOKPLATES OF A PREVIOUS OWNER HAND-WRITTEN NOTE OF THE ORIGINAL PURCHASE OF THE BOOK TO FEP AND MANUSCRIPT POETRY TO REAR END PAGE.
VERY GOOD COPY IN VERY GOOD DUSTWRAP. THIS PIONEERING BIOGRAPHY ESTABLISHES IN DETAIL THE PERSON EMILY TENNYSON WAS. IT IS THE STORY OF A REMARKABLE FAMILY AS WELL AS A REMARKABLE WOMAN BRINGING INTO THE FOREGROUND A NEGLECTED AND OFTEN MISUNDERSTOOD CHARACTER A CENTURY AFTER HER DEATH.
THE REVISED ILLUSTRATED EDITION LIMITED TO 550 NUMBERED COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER 279. TOGETHER WITH A TWO-SIDED HAND-WRIITEN LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR ADDRESSED FROM CHEYNE WALK. HAYWARD SHARED A FLAT WITH T. S. ELIOT. THE BOOK IS FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROGER SENHOUSE (PUBLISHER TRANSLATOR AND MEMBER OF THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP) WITH HIS BOOKPLATE AND SIGNATURE. ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH TEG. VERY GOOD.
FIRST EDITION 2 VOLS. COMPLETE. A CATALOGUE OF SEPARATELY PRINTED POEMS WITH NOTES ON CONTEMPORARY COLLECTED EDITIONS. THICK QUARTO VOL 1: CATALOGUE 923 PAGES. VOL 2: INDEXES 302 PAGES. BOTH VOLUMES NEAR FINE IN DUSTWRAPPERS.
