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Gosse, Edmund.
Firdausi in Exile and Other Poems.
Publisher: [Printed at the Chiswick Press for] Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1885
Stock Code: 15209
First Edition. Duodecimo, pp., x, 224, [2] colophon, plus tissue-guarded wood-engraved frontispiece, 4 initial and terminal blanks, upper cover of original publisher’s cloth bound to end. Green crushed full morocco by Riviere and Sons (their binder’s stamp to front dentelle); spine on five raised bands; titled in gilt to spine; gilt fillets to edges of boards; gilt dentelles; sea green end-papers; edges untrimmed. Later gift inscription in blue ink to front free end-paper. Spine sunned to brown; joints rubbed to head; corners bumped. Internally clean. A solid copy of an elegantly produced book. Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) was a biographer, translator, and critic. Of his poetic work, Gosse called this book ‘the volume of my verses which has most of the tension of real life in it’. This first edition was printed by the Chiswick Press, which inherited the types used by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Riviere and Sons was a fine bindery operating in the English tradition. Their bindings are highly celebrated. £50.00