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Main, David M. (editor).
Three Hundred English Sonnets.
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London;
Date of Publication: 1884
Stock Code: 14163
First Edition thus. Duodecimo, pp., [8], 320. Printed on laid paper. Superbly bound by Zaehnsdorf in full crushed green morocco, titles gilt to spine, gilt fillets to board edges, gilt dentelles, top edge gilt and fore-edge uncut, patterned endpapers With Zaehnsdorf’s oval binder’s stamp of to end, reserved only for their finest exhibition bindings. Leather sunned from green to brown at board edges and spine. Contents clean, bright, and fresh. A very good copy. An anthology of some of the greatest sonnets in the English language, bound by perhaps the finest binder in late-Victorian Britain. £95.00