CHOSEN AND EDITED BY SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH,.
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900.
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900; Chosen and Edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch and Finely Bound by Bayntun
London: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1926.
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Item Number: RRB-149271
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Finely bound edition of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900. Duodecimo, bound in full contemporary dark green levant morocco by Bayntun with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, front panel with morocco inlays depicting a poetiphile or "lover of poetry", all edges gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, silk moire endpapers, silk ribbon bound in. In near fine condition. An exceptional example.
The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, appeared in 1900. It rapidly established itself as the classic anthology of English poetry, running through twenty-one impressions in the next forty years and selling nearly half a million copies. The present edition is a new anthology that widens the range of poetry initially included in Q's compilation in an attempt to represent the variety of English non-dramatic poetry from 1250 to 1900.
The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900.
$1,500.00
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