Lot 167
  • 167

Georgian Poetry

Estimate
500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Collection of eleven volumes, comprising:
  • paper
[Sassoon, S.] The Daffodil Murderer, Richmond, 1913, original wrappers, collector's box, bookplate, minor soiling to wrappers; Sassoon, S. Vigils, Cleverdon, 1934, number 184 of 272 copies, limitation leaf loosely inserted, original niger, browning to endpapers--Hodgson, R. The Mystery; Eve; The Song of Honour; The Bull, Flying Fame, 1913, 4 vol., hand-coloured illustrations by Lovat Fraser, original wrappers, collector's chemise and slipcase--Osmaston, F.P. Art and Nature Sonnets. Mathews, [1911], illustrations by James Guthrie, presentation copy inscribed by the author to Laurence Binyon together with two autograph letters signed to Binyon (with criticism of Guthrie) loosely inserted, original cloth-backed pictorial boards gilt, some browning, minor abrasions--together with 4 others; all 8vo, occasional browning (11)

Condition

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