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    By Logan Pearsall Smith [ed.]; Rossell Hope Robbins [ed.]; C. T. Onions [ed.]; H. S. Vere-Hodge [trans.]; Montague Rhodes James [trans.]; G. M. Story [ed.]; David Nichol Smith [ed.].
    Oxford   The Clarendon Press
    7.5” by 5” Lii, 263 [1]; Lv [1], 331; viii, 312; x [2], 269; xxxi [1], 594; Lii, 295; xii, 727 pp.
    A seven volume collection of Oxford classics spanning early verse, sermons, Anglo-Saxon prose, Dantean translation, and apocryphal scripture, with their original dust wrappers.
    By Logan Pearsall Smith [ed.]; Rossell Hope Robbins [ed.]; C. T. Onions [ed.]; H. S. Vere-Hodge [trans.]; Montague Rhodes James [trans.]; G. M. Story [ed.]; David Nichol Smith [ed.].

    1950-1971 7 Vols A Seven-Volume Oxford Anthology of Verse, Sermons, and Early Texts

    Oxford   The Clarendon Press
    7.5” by 5” Lii, 263 [1]; Lv [1], 331; viii, 312; x [2], 269; xxxi [1], 594; Lii, 295; xii, 727 pp.
    A seven volume collection of Oxford classics spanning early verse, sermons, Anglo-Saxon prose, Dantean translation, and apocryphal scripture, with their original dust wrappers.
    £275.00
    : 3kgs / : 984H31
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    Description

    Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    In the publisher's original navy cloth bindings. 

    Complete with the original dust wrappers, all but two of which remain unclipped. 

    A varied seven-volume selection of Oxford literary and theological editions spanning medieval secular lyrics, Anglo-Saxon prose, Renaissance and seventeenth-century sermons, apocryphal scriptural texts, Dantean odes, and eighteenth-century verse.

    Compromising: 

    Donne’s Sermons: Selected Passages with an Essay by Logan Pearsall Smith (1950). First published in 1919, this edition is a reprint. This volume's dust wrapper is price clipped. 

    Secular Lyrics of the XIVth and XVth Centuries (1955). First published in 1952, this is the second edition.

    Sweet’s Anglo-Saxon Reader: In Prose and Verse (1962). The fourteenth edition, reprinted.

    The Odes of Dante (1963). Translated by H. S. Vere-Hodge.

    The Apocryphal New Testament (1966). Reprint.

    Lancelot Andrewes: Sermons (1967). Selected and edited with an Introduction by G. M. Story. This volume's dust wrapper is price clipped. 

    The Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (1971). First published in 1926, this is a reprint.

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, generally smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to extremities. Slight offsetting and the odd spot to endpapers. Previous bookseller’s discreet label to front paste down of “Sweet’s.” Dust wrappers, generally smart. Spot of red damp staining to front wrap of “Sweet’s.” wrap of “Apocryphal” not price clipped, but with original price obscured by sticker. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in the odd small chip, closed tear and crease. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to first and last few leaves and fore edges.

    Very Good

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