The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1900
Clarendon Press, 1904.
Finely bound by Spottiswoode, in half red morocco, raised bands to spine, with gilt lettering and Art Nouveau style decoration in the sections. Gilt rules on the boards. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. A very good copy, a little rubbing to the corners and light spotting to the preliminaries and page edges.
Poems selected by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch range from the beginning of the thirteenth century up to the late nineteenth century and are arranged chronologically. Poets include Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, William Morris, R.L. Stevenson, Poe and many more.
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