POETS ON POETS.

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16x11cm. First edition. Printed at the Chiswick Press on quality paper. Anthology of English poetry from the Middle Ages to the late-19th century, each poet "expressing opinions in verse on the poetical qualities of some or other of his predecessors or contemporaries". Title-page printed in red and black. pp(2)XXV(1)324 with introduction, notes, and index of poets. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original full cream vellum, spine titled etc in red and black, front board with title in red and publisher's device in black. Spine with some light-greyish toning and ingrained dust-marking & -spotting. Boards a little outwards-curled. No dust jacket. Fore- & lower edges of text-block lightly spotted. Short and quite widely spaced 5-line gift inscription dated Christmas 1901 on recto of blank preliminary leaf. Two blindstamped addresses (same owner) on half-title, each accompanied by manuscript date - 1921 for one, 1928 for the other. Final page (324) of contents faintly toned. Binding holding firmly and of handsome appearance; and apart from preliminary leaf, half-title and final page, contents clean, tight and fine throughout. VERY GOOD copy. N° de ref. del artículo 26684

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