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Title

The

Golden Treasury

Of The Best Songs and Lyrical Poems In the English Language

Selected and Arranged With Notes By

Francis Turner Palgrave

Professor of Poetry In The University of Oxford

[Fine Zaehnsdorf Exhibition Full Leather Binding – Later Edition]

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Author

Francis Turner Palgrave

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Year of Publication

1883

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Publisher

London: Macmillan & Co.

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Description:

London: Macmillan & Co., 1883 Later Edition.

Zaehnsdorf full morocco leather 'exhibition' binding; so called because of the gilt disc on the rear paste down.

Full green leather with gilt and red onlaid leather floral decoration to the boards and spine. Variably sun faded. Gilt decorated to the leather turn-ins on the paste downs, terracotta cloth to the centre panel of the paste downs and to the gilt decorated end papers. Tanned and darkened title page, with a pencil signature to the top.

Selected and arranged and with notes by Francis Turner Palgrave. Title page Illustrated with a Greek youth playing a pipe. 

Pagination: xii, 332pp.

Provenance: signature for Herbert Maxwell to the top of the title page in ink, from Monreith House with their ticket loosely inserted, the seat of Clan Maxwell, Scotland.

Approximately 6 ¼ inches (16cm) tall.

 

Condition Report

Externally

  • Spine – good condition – sun faded, gilt titles, five raised bands, rubbed and worn to the bands, gilt and onlaid red leather decorated compartments, outer tips are also gilt.
  • Joints – good condition – rubbed and worn.
  • Corners – good condition – gently bumped.
  • Boards – good condition – full morocco boards with gilt and onlaid red leather floral decoration, variably sun faded, with minor marks.
  • Page edges – good condition – top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges tanned and foxed.
  • See photos.

Internally

  • Hinges – good condition – sound.
  • Paste downs – good condition – terracotta cloth with gilt decoration to the leather border.
  • End papers – good condition – gilt decorated terracotta cloth, internal free end papers are tanned and foxed.
  • Title – good condition – illustrated with a youth playing a pipe, darkened or tanned with some foxing, pencil signature to the top of the page.
  • Pages – good condition – lightly tanned and foxed throughout.
  • Binding – good condition.
  • See photos.

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