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Longfellow Henry Wadsworth

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Prefatory Notice. [Landscape Poets series]. IN SPLENDID DECORATIVE BINDING

Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh, 1895

112.70 €

Island Books

(Devon, United Kingdom)

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Year of publication
1895
Author
Longfellow Henry Wadsworth
Publishers
Gall & Inglis, Edinburgh
Keyword
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Languages
English

Description

8vo., First Edition thus, with steel-engraved frontispiece, 3 steel-engraved plates and pictorial borders toned alternately in red and green behind each page of text; handsomely bound in the publisher's full burgundy leather, upper board elaborately blocked with large Oxford frame in gilt and black enclosing series and volume titles lettered and decorated in gilt and green, back with five raised bands, second compartment ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments elaborately ruled and tooled in gilt, gilt edges, bevelled boards, blind doublures, chocolate endpapers, covers just a little age-scuffed else a very handsome copy in the original binding. A fine example of an elaborate late Victorian presentation binding.