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Buchanan,
Robert (ed.), WAYSIDE POSIES: ORIGINAL POEMS OF THE COUNTRY LIFE
(London: George Routledge, 1867). First (& only) edition,
25 x 19.5cm [4to], in publisher's maroon sand-grain cloth
w/elaborate gilt & black decorations & title to covers &
spine, w/white central panels to covers (all designed by Albert
Warren), bevelled edges, a.e.g., cream ep.s w/binder's ticket (Leighton
Son & Hodge) to rear pastedown, [i-xiv], 1-91 [+ 1-91 unpaginated
versos], [1-4 publ. adverts] cardstock pp. w/42 wood engravings by the
Dalziels after G.J. Pinwell (18), J.W. North (19) & Frederick
Walker (5). Printed at the Camden Press, London. Binding
Fair (rebacked retaining original ep.s, spine & edges of covers
soiled & sunned, & ep.s a bit foxed); contents Good (lt.
scattered foxing, & lt. dampstains to fore-edges of some pp. [not
affecting the plates]). White 4 & 130 ("in the very front
rank"), Reid passim, Ray 154, Colbeck 5, de Beaumont 395, Goldman
passim. (Inv. #495) C$500 Home Page |