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Robert Southey

Selected Works Of The British Poets, From Chaucer To Jonson

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green

1831

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Description

A first edition presentation copy of Selected Works Of The British Poets, inscribed by the author.

  • Robert Southey (English).
  • Selected Works Of The British Poets, From Chaucer To Jonson, with Biographical Sketches by Robert Southey.
  • London: for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831.
  • 1016 pages, with the 16-page publisher's catalog dated April 1831 at front.
  • Inscribed on the half-title "Katharine Southey. Keswick. 26 May 1831. from her Father."
  • Bound in the publisher's original purple/maroon cloth, with the original gilt lettered leather spine label, housed in a fine green morocco backed solinder slipcase.

Provenance

The Property of The Doris L. Benz Trust sold for the benefit of Dartmouth College Library, Friday, November 16, 1984.

Condition Report

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Like New

Some foxing to the tile-page, otherwise internally clean and bright.

Spine expertly relined.

Bookplates of H. R. Merewether and C. F. Crokat to front pastedown.

Feature(s)

First Edition, Signed

Language

English

Subject

Poetry, Fine bindings, Autographed and Signed Material, Literature, English literature and history

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