The Prelude to Poetry: The English Poets in Defence and Praise of Their Own Art by Rhys, Ernest (editor) - 1951

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1951. Hardcover. Good. 1951. No edition remarks. 292 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Contains ex-libris plate. Everyman's Library No. 789. Book is in better condition than most examples of this age. Neat, clean, well bound pages with very minimal foxing, tanning and thumbing. Small inscriptions and neat labels may be present. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd, London, 1951. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. introduction by editor. Illustrated endpapers with a pale peach design. Orange coloured cloth covered with blind stamped illustration on the front panel with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. Pale purple coloured tint to top textblock edge. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a black and white morbius design against a blue and white background with black coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Part of the " Everyman's Library " series of books No. 789. "From the English poets, from Sidney and Milton, from college, Wordsworth, Shelley and their successors, we have brought together here some of the arguments they have stated on behalf of their infinite art. " -- from introduction page VII. Softening to the top text block edge with rubbing of the book corners. Age toning and faint foxing to the text block edges. Chipping to the dustwrapper corners and… Read More

London: Dent, 1927. orange cloth, old Everyman library decoration on spine, nice copy.. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-09-10. Paperback. Good.

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2010-01-29. Paperback. Good.

The Prelude To PoetryEveryman's Library # 789hardcover
Publisher:
J.M. Dent / E.P. Dutton, 1927
Condition:book - Very Good (some writing on the flyleaf)dust jacket - Good (some chipping, spotting)

London: J.M. Dent & Co., Aldine House, (no date). Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo. Decorative green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. Ownership signature of educator and poet Daniel Hoffman on the front fly with his pen and pencil markings on some pages, another name inked on front fly, spine darkened and cocked, corner bumped, still a very good copy. Poetry by Chaucer, Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, Campion, Daniel, Ben Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Gray, Goldsmith, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Landor.