Hardcover
1908 · Oxford
by Lucas, St. John, compiler
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. A lovely little volume of French poetry that includes such writers as Baudelaire, Chateaubriand, Froissart, Gautier, Hugo, Moliere, Ronsard, Villon, and Verlaine. Bound in full dark red leather by the binder Morrell with raised bands, gilt titling, and gilt dentelles. Light wear to edges and joints. Rear hinge is cracked. Rear dentelles have chips. Offsetting on free endpapers from leather turn-ins. Call number faintly visible on spine and small accession number in ink on verso of title page. Remnant of signout slip on rear endpaper. Interior pages are clean and bright. Bookplates of Elsie Bogardus Murphy and John P. King. Still very good condition. Measures 4.25 x 6.75 inches. 492 pages. FRENCHL/101921. (Inventory #: 35327)