SOUTHEY, Robert. Selected Works Of The British Poets, From Chaucer To Jonson, with Biographical Sketches by Robert Southey. (1831 - FIRST EDITION - PRESENTION COPY TO SOUTHEY'S DAUGHTER)

AUTHOR: SOUTHEY, Robert. 

TITLE: Selected Works Of The British Poets, From Chaucer To Jonson, with Biographical Sketches by Robert Southey.

PUBLISHER: London: for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831.

DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION PRESENTION COPY TO SOUTHEY'S DAUGHTER. 1 vol., 9-1/8" x 6-1/4", (viii)1016pp., with the 16-page publisher's catalog dated April 1831 at front, inscribed on the half-title "Katharine Southey. Keswick. 26 May 1831. from her Father", bound in the publisher's original purple/maroon cloth, with the original gilt lettered leather spine label.

CONDITION: Some foxing to the tile-page, otherwise internally clean and bright, spine expertly relined, Bookplates of H. R. Merewether and C. F. Crokat to front pastedown, housed in a fine green morocco backed solinder slipcase.

PROVENANCE: The Property of The Doris L. Benz Trust sold for the benefit of Dartmouth College Library. Friday, November 16, 1984.