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Allingham, William, THE MUSIC
MASTER, A LOVE STORY. AND TWO SERIES OF DAY AND NIGHT SONGS
(London: G. Routledge & Co., 1855). First edition, 17 x
10.5cm (8vo), in publisher's dark blue vertically ribbed wavy-grain
cloth w/blind-stamped decorations (lyre device framed by a decorative
border) to covers & gilt decorations & title to spine, pale
yellow ep.s, [i-vii] viii-xiii [xiv-xvi], [1-3] 4-221 [222], [1-2 publ.
adverts] pp. +tipped-in wood engraved frontis & 8 plates (Milly
in facsimile) by the Dalziels after Arthur Hughes, D.G. Rossetti &
J.E. Millais, & numerous vignettes & ornaments after
Hughes. Printed by Savill & Edwards, London. With the
ticket of W. & E. Pickering, Bath to fr. pastedown, & small
sig. of Ralph Abercrombie to recto of fr. ep. Binding Very Good
(extremities sl. rubbed, & spine a bit darkened w/head reinforced);
contents Very Good (some foxing to a few leaves). Athenæum
15 Aug. 1855 p.943 (by H.F. Chorley), White passim, Rossetti 1 (p.41),
Reid passim, Fredeman 46.4 & 90.2 (see also p.186), Lasner 4.2 (his
"primary" binding), de Beaumont 7, Goldman 6 (see also p.2).
(Inv. #638) C$1,500 Home Page |