Patmore, Coventry

4to, ONE OF AROUND 20 COPIES, late nineteenth- or early twentieth- century full brown morocco gilt, original straw-coloured printed wrappers bound in, half-title, uncut

Lewis Kennedy Morse, bookplate, receipt from Anderson Auction Company, 6 December 1910 loosely inserted

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing where appropriate
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THE RARE PRIVATE EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FAVOURITE OF ALL HIS POETICAL WORKS, deemed his "most perfect" by Richard Garnett. Amelia was printed on fine paper in an edition of 20 or 25 copies. The last copy we have been able to find at auction was that sold at Sotheby's Parke Bernet in October 1970 (John Drinkwater's copy, for $240). In the UK, COPAC records copies only at the British Library, Nottingham and Aberdeen.