HAND-PAINTED BOOKBINDING. QUILLER-COUCH. ~ The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900.
Oxford
Clarendon Press
1902
8vo., original full vellum with a painting on the upper cover, c. 1910, of a woman reading a large book in a bower and the hand-written text “Bards of Passion and of Mirth, Ye have left your Souls on Earth”, the spine has a calligraphic hand-written title in red and a painting of a fairy with multi-coloured wings, gilt inner dentelles, slight bowing but generally very good and clean. With a 1914 gift inscription on the first blank.
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