Editore: M. Walter Dunne, Washington, 1901
Da: Gyre & Gimble, Holden, ME, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Green w/pasted paper label to slightly darkened spine. Minor wear head and heel of spine, corners very slightly rubbed. Titles have faded completely from label and paper is rubbed and soiled . Top edge gilt. Lovely rough cut edge. The vast majority of the pages have never been cut. Sadly, this book has been remainder marked with a red marker, top and bottom outside edges. Does not effect text. Lovely two-color title pages. Illustrated with beautiful photogravures on Japan vellum, etchings hand painted India-plate reproductions, all with labeled tissue guards. Frontis and one other illustration. Text is clean and tight, no marks, lightly and evenly toned. Includes The Consolations of Philosophy, a translation from Boethius, with original renderings and additions, Toxophilus, the School of Shootynge, The Steel Glass, An Apologie for Poetrie, The Table Talk, Hydriotaphia (Urn-Burial), The Pit of Law, and History of John Bull, On Reticence in Criticism, Poems, a nd Biographia Literaria. Each section includes Biographical notes. Other books in this series may be available.