Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) Selected Poems, Illustrated by Harry Clarke (1889-1931).

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Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909) Selected Poems, Illustrated by Harry Clarke (1889-1931). London: John Lane, the Bodley Head; New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., [1928]. Large octavo, full-page illustrations by Clarke throughout, along with head and tail pieces, and vignettes; bound in an exhibition binding by A. Genova of Venice, the binding elaborately gilt over front board and spine with leather onlays, back board tooled in blind, t.e.g., watered silk endleaves and pastedowns, stamped at foot of back board, housed in binder's custom slipcase, 9 x 5 3/4 in.
Estimate $800-1,000


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