Selections from Swinburne
by Edmund Gosse & Thomas James Wise (eds)
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1919 (Heinemann) EDITION LTD 525 numbered copies, h/b quarter-vellum, top edge gilt, 288 pages Not at all heavily worn, this volume is very square, tight & internally clean but age-foxed-darkened externally [eps, closed edges, covers (papered section)], inscription-free, not ex-library. Even with the external age-(discoloured)-patina, it is remarkable how books this fine seem to retain so much original charm -- untrimmed heavy-textured pages encased in gilt-tooled covers (cream-'aged' vellum backstrip + cream papered boards), whose outer corners are rubbed. 2 famous editors, with Wise not just a recognised authority on Swinburne but a publisher of his works and biographer, quite aside from his notorious fraudster activities (later exposed). Swinburne, Gosse, Wise - fine
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- Fine
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.