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Landor, Walter Savage
Estimate
3,500 - 4,500 USD
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Description
- Paper, ink, leather
Count Julian: A Tragedy. London: John Murray, 1812.
Provenance
Robert Southey (gift from the author through Murray, Berwick-designed bookplate); Nowell-Smith (bookplates)
Catalogue Note
8vo (159 x 95 mm). Half-title. Contemporary pink calf, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind; spine and joints slightly rubbed.
first edition, presentation copy in Robert Southey's hand, which is wholly appropriate as it was Southey who convinced Murray to issue the work after it was rejected by Longman. He also saw it through the press.