Exquisitely bound Arts & Crafts binding (contemporary?) for The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges. Featuring all-over gilt designs on both covers and spine with two side panels of finely and intricately gilt blossom and strapwork designs. Side and bottom portions contain elegant vine and leaf gilt patterning, large rectangular panel decorated with elegant stippled curvilinear shapes, all attached at vertices. Spine with gilt designs, edges also decorated in gilt.... Inner dentelles gilt, patterned silk-lined endpapers, all edges gilt.
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Bibliography
Bridges, Robert. The Shorter Poems of Robert Bridges. 3rd ed. London: Geo. Bell & Sons, 1891. Third edition
Created 20 May 2021