(London: Elkin Mathews and John Lane, at the Sign of the Bodley Head/New York: Macmillan and Company: April 1893) Reprint [First Edition was March 1893]. Gilt decorated cloth, art nouveau design (that is, hard covers) pp. xii, 214, 2 and 7 publisher’s advertisements, the later being Elkin Mathews and John Lane’s List of New and forthcoming Books dated 1893. With Illustrations by C.S. Ricketts. [References identify the binding as by Charles Ricketts. There are two monograms on each board]. Top edge gilt, others uncut. First Edition. Head of spine worn; small dampstain to foot of front board; heavily dampstained at the top corners of the front and rear boards; this damp has affected the margins of the preliminary leaves, and also those of four of the six plates; otherwise a very good copy.

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Bookseller: exPB (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 194097
Title: Poems: Dramatic and Lyrical
Author: John Leicester Warren, Lord De Tabley
Book Condition: Used
Binding: Hardcover
Keywords: literature poetry art and illustration

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I am the daughter of Pioneer Books, our business has closed down after 43 years and I am listing some of it on my own account now that I'm the proud owner of the residual stock! I am selling them at half the price at which they were listed when Pioneer Books existed.

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