Product Description
1945 First Edition.
Size octavo, 256 pages.
Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine.
Dust jacket with silhouette bust portrait of Southey on front panel.
Duo toned portrait frontispiece of Robert Southey.
Text is illustrated with five duotoned plates.
Book condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, tiny bookseller label to front paste-down, gift inscription on front end-paper else contents clean.
Dust jacket condition very good, corners and spine ends rubbed, 0.5 cm tear to top front edge, spine slightly sunned, not price clipped.
The gift inscription is to Biographer and Reviewer Malcolm Elwin from his wife Eve, Christmas 1945.
Also loosely inserted is a sheet of Malcolm Elwin's manuscript notes he made as he went through the book and prepared a review of the book.
Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973)
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