[QUILLER-COUCH, Arthur (editor)]. The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250-1918. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1949.
New edition. Hardcover. Leather-bound. Octavo (190 x 125 mm.), pp. [xxxii], 1166. English text printed on india paper. Exquisitely bound by Zaehnsdorf (signed on the front endleaf with an ink pallet) in full red morocco. Spine with five raised bands, gilt centre tools and lettering in the second compartment. Board edges gilt ruled. Inner gilt dentelles. All page edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Half-title. Condition: FINE. An immaculate copy. 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.
