The Poetical Works of John Dryden
Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1854. First Thus. Volumes 1-4 of 5-volume set. 16mo. 4.5 x 7 in. Bound by B. Bradley & Co., Boston, in full brown cloth, titled in gilt on spine with seal & motto 'VERBUM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNUM'. Vol. I includes tissue-guarded portrait frontis. of Dryden. Good. Lightly soiled covers, heavily chipped at crown & foot of spine. Light foxing to preliminary and rear pages, else text is bright & clean. Binding square & tight.
North Carolinia historian, scholar, & newspaper man Darley Hiden Ramsey's copy, with his 'Hemlock' arts & crafts bookplate to front pastedown.
Price: $75.00
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