[QUILLER-COUCH, ARTHUR]. The Oxford Book of English Prose. Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1940.
Hardcover. Leather-bound. Reprint. Octavo (185 x 125 mm.), pp. [xxi], (1), 1092. English text printed on india paper. Exquisitely bound by Henry Sotheran (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet) in polished calf, the covers with a gilt border composed of two fillets. The spine divided into six panels with gilt compartments, lettered in the second and fourth on a black goatskin label, the others tooled with sprigs, the edges of the boards and turn-ins similarly ruled and tooled, hand-marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt, initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Armorial bookplate of John Richardson to front pastedown. Condition: FINE. An absolutely immaculate copy. Scarce thus.
