Title: Selected Edition of the Golden Treasury. >>...
Publisher: Hill, Leopold B. 101 Great Russell St. London W.C.
Publication Date: 1910
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
96 printed pages. Printed by Richard Clay & Sons. Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Inner gilt dentelles. Complete with contemporary marbled paper covered slipcase. De luxe binding signed by Riviere & Son. A selected anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861; it was considerably revised, with input from Tennyson, about three decades later. WorldCat lists four copies. Both WorldCat and Welsh only describe copies published by Siegle, Hill & Co. London. This Leopold B. Hill imprint is an unlisted variant. 60 x 90mm. Original crimson calf. Stylised honeysuckle cornerpieces and decorative triple fillet gilt borders on front and back covers. Spine with 6 gilt pointille bands within horizontal gilt borders, quatrefoil hand-tooled decorations and gilt titling. Minor foxing on endpapers. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann. Welsh, 5445. OCLC, 562731171 for Siegle edition. WorldCat locates 4 copies worldwide of the Siegle edition but none of this Leopold Hill copy. Seller Inventory # 5410