Wednesday, March 12, 2014

1878 POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE - ILLUSTRATED BY SIR JOHN GILBERT - VICTORIAN FINE BINDING

1878

THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE

ILLUSTRATED BY SIR JOHN GILBERT

*** RARE ANTIQUE EDITION ~ STUNNING VICTORIAN FINE BINDING ~ ENGRAVINGS ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

London: George Routledge and Sons, no date, circa 1878.
There are ads for Little Wide Awake 1878 in the catalog at end.

• measures about 7.75'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• beveled edges to boards
• embossed gold gilt, black, and color stamping
• textblock all edges gilt
• coated brown endpapers
• frontispiece with tissue-guard
• illustrated with full-page engraved plates
• red-line border to all text pages



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