POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BRIDGES : Excluding the Eight Dramas ( Oxford Edition )
by Bridges, Robert
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London, New York, Toronto and Melborne: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, 1914. Full-Leather. Very Good. Book consists of the Poems and Masquescontained in the collected editions of the poetical works of robert Bridges, together with two groups of later poems and Poems in Classical Prosody." Frontis illus is a photo portrait of Bridges with facsimile signature under. Handsome Brown Calf Full-Tree-Leather binding with 5 raised bands to spine. Gilt title on Black ground to spine with Gilt decoration on babnds and in compartments. Narrow decorative gilt border on front & back. Gilt decoration on edges and blind-tooled decoration on inside border. Marbeld endpapers. All page edges Marbled. 472 p.pages, 560g, 7 1/4" tall. Slight wear down sides of spine. Small gift inscription on back of ffep, dated 1921. No other inscriptions.
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019679
- Title
- POETICAL WORKS OF ROBERT BRIDGES : Excluding the Eight Dramas ( Oxford Edition )
- Author
- Bridges, Robert
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- London, New York, Toronto and Melborne
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/POETRY/ENGLISH
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- Facsimile
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- New
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- Spine
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- Calf
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- Gilt
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