The Batheaston Parnassus Fairs. A Manuscript Identified

Book Description

San Francisco: Privately printed for Alfred Sutro by The Grabhorn Press, 1936 One of 250 copies. Presentation inscription, signed by Alfred Sutro to Carl I. Wheat and with Wheat's small hand-printed bookplate. Quarto. vi, 16pp. Handset Bauer Bodoni type. Facsimile manuscript leaf tipped-in. Blue boards, tan cloth back; white paper spine label printed in black. A fine copy. The story behind a previously unidentified manuscript poem and the unique poetry competition held at Bath, England in the late 1700's. From the personal collection of author/historian Carl I. Wheat. [Grabhorn: 246]..

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