Description
FIRST EDITION, 12 plates, pp. x, 318, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, various material laid in (see below), dustjacket with backstrip panel lightly faded, very good
Publication details: Oxford: Clarendon Press,1985,
Rare Book
The dedication copy, inscribed by the authors on the dedication-page, beneath the printed dedication: [To John Bell] With all our love & thanks, Robert & Jo'.Laid in are two obituaries of Gittings and the programme for a memorial Celebration in 1992, along with two Christmas cards signed by Gittings and Manton (husband and wife) - these featuring brass rubbings taken by their daughter Clare as well as a poem by Gittings, one with a photograph of the latter on his birthday in 1981 laid in - as well as a printed poem by Gittings on a piece of card, signed by the poet.A biography of William Wordsworth's 'exquisite' sister (so called by Coleridge), the 'first to treat [her] more fully, as a person in her own right' (blurb).
FIRST EDITION, 12 plates, pp. x, 318, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, various material laid in (see below), dustjacket with backstrip panel lightly faded, very good
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