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Lot 49
Sale 5439 - Fine Books, Manuscripts & Ephemera
Jan 15, 2009
5:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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$250 -
400
Price Realized
$120
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Lot Description
1 vol.
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1 vol.
Bridges, Robert. Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873. First edition. 8vo, orig. blue cloth, paper spine label, edges untrimmed; light edge wear, spine & extremities slightly sunned, free endpapers browned. With the book plate of The Victorian bibliophile, author & editor, Basil Montagu Pickering on front paste-down.
Robert Bridge's scarce privately published, later suppressed, first book.
[Hayward 286 - describing 1/10 large page copies.]; [McKay 1]