[QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur (editor)]. The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1918. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1949.
New edition. Hardcover. Leather-bound. Duodecimo (165 x 105 mm.), pp. [xxxii], 1166. English text printed on india paper. Exquisitely bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe in full red morocco (signed in gilt on front turn-in). Spine and covers with gilt ruled frames and tooling. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title. Condition: NEAR FINE. Light sunning to spine, otherwise an immaculate copy with neat contemporary inscription to fep.
Notes: Early edition of Quiller-Couch's collection of English poetry, first published in 1900, in a handsome signed binding. "This volume soon became the standard anthology of English verse and sold nearly a million volume during Quiller-Couch's lifetime" (ODNB). From the library of Stacy Lloyd III, with gift inscription form his mother, the billionaire heiress, Bunny Mellon.
