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Ode to Mazzini / The Saviour of Society / Liberty and Loyalty Unpublished Mss. Discovered Among the Author's Effects After His Death
by SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
Boston: The Bibliophile Society. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. A deluxe edition offering three poems by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) which were discovered after his death. One of a limited edition of 479 unnumbered copies, published for members of the Bibliophile Society. With prefaces by Edmund Gosse. Also includes Swinburne's "Memorial Verses on the Death of Richard Burton", along with tipped-in folded facsimile manuscript of same. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards backed in vellum, with gilt-stamped spine titling. Top edge gilt, remaining textblock edges deckled. --- A very nice copy: clean, and bright but with a little soiling to spine and minor edgewear. Some pages unopened.; Tall Octavo (9 to 10 in. tall); 77 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 81997
- Title
- Ode to Mazzini / The Saviour of Society / Liberty and Loyalty Unpublished Mss. Discovered Among the Author's Effects After His Death
- Author
- SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Bibliophile Society
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1913
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry;
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- First Edition
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- Octavo
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Vellum
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- Unopened
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Spine
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- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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