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Poems ... Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott
by Montgomery, James
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Publisher's presentation binding of full green morocco, covers with bevelled edges, gilt, a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouch
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About This Item
London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Farrington Street, 1860. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill, Birket Foster, J. Wolf, John Gilbert, William Harvey, Duncan, and others, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Publisher's presentation binding of full green morocco, covers with bevelled edges, gilt, a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouched, else fine. First edition thus. One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill, Birket Foster, J. Wolf, John Gilbert, William Harvey, Duncan, and others, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers. 4to. Inscribed by the Daziel Brothers on Christmas Eve to the Publisher's Widow. A pretty copy in a publisher's deluxe presentation binding, with a Christmas inscription by the engravers the Daziel brothers to Mrs William Warne, the widow of the publisher William Warne (d. 1859).
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 258259
- Title
- Poems ... Selected and edited by Robert Aris Willmott
- Author
- Montgomery, James
- Format/Binding
- One hundred wood engravings by Pickengill, Birket Foster, J. Wolf, John Gilbert, William Harvey, Duncan, and others, engraved by
- Book Condition
- Used - Publisher's presentation binding of full green morocco, covers with bevelled edges, gilt, a.e.g. Some rubbing to binding retouch
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition thus
- Publisher
- Routledge, Warne & Routledge, Farrington Street
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1860
- Keywords
- British | British | British
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- Illustrated Books; Literature; Art, Architecture & Design;
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James Cummins Bookseller
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