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1879 The Poet's Year A Birthday Register With Selections From Chaucer to Longfellow
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce
The first edition.
In the publisher's original cloth.
Illustrated with a colour title page and frontispiece and 12 colour plates depicting the name of each month. Collated complete.
This charming calendar features poetry for every day of the year from a host of poets such as Longfellow and Shakespeare. The work also provides space to write the birthdays of your friends and families on the following page. At the beginning of each month there is a description of a selection poet born to that month.
Publisher's advertisements to the rear. Gilt fore edge.
Condition
In the publisher's original cloth. Externally very smart with marks to the boards, bumping to the extremities, minor fading to the spine, light rubbing to the joints and rubbing to the rear board. Bookseller's label to the front pastedown with the odd minor mark to the endpapers only. Internally firmly bound with lightly age toned and generally clean pages with slight offsetting from the plates and the odd name written in ink to certain dates.
Very Good
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