Estimate: | £300 - £500 |
BINDINGS - Walter THORNBURY (1828-76, editor). Two Centuries of Song; or, Lyrics, Madrigals, Sonnets, and other Occasional Verses of the English Poets of the Last Two Hundred Years. London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1867. 4to (229 x 165mm). Additional ornamental title page and decorative borders throughout engraved by R. B. Utting after Henry Shaw, headpieces, 19 wood-engraved plates by Orrin Smith, H. Harral, W. J. Linton and others. FINELY BOUND in red crushed morocco gilt by Bain, covers with gilt foliate cornerpieces and small central oval decoration, spine elaborately gilt with 5 raised bands, gilt edges. Provenance: Robert J. Hayhurst (bookplate); Miss Farrar (very small signature on front free endpaper dated Sept. 18, 1882); A. G. Quibell (old calligraphic signature on the same endpaper). FIRST EDITION. With Christina Georgina Rossetti's The Poetical Works ... With Memoir and Notes by William Michael Rossetti (London, 1904, FINELY BOUND in red crushed morocco gilt by Riviere). (2)