Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of Several Languages by John Gray
by [Vale Press]. GRAY, John
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press], 1896. Crown octavo, cxiii pages, printed on laid paper with the Vale Press watermark, with wood-engraved frontispiece (with a tissue-guard), borders, initials and ornaments by Charles Ricketts. Original plain papered boards with title-labels on the spine and front cover; edges uncut and partially unopened; covers slightly worn and split at the joints, and a little tanned and marked, with a small production flaw on the front cover; endpapers a little browned and foxed; edges and tissue-guard slightly foxed; a very good copy (internally fine). One of only 210 copies of the fourth publication from the Vale Press. In his 'Bibliography of the Books issued by Hacon & Ricketts' (page xx), Ricketts notes: 'The greater number of these poems are translations from a variety of authors covering the whole field of Christian Poetry'.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Treloar Antiquarian Booksellers (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 135262
- Title
- Spiritual Poems, chiefly done out of Several Languages by John Gray
- Author
- [Vale Press]. GRAY, John
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Printed at the Ballantyne Press for Hacon & Ricketts [Vale Press]
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1896
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