Selections from Pope, Dryden, and Various Other British Catholic Poets, Who Preceded the Nineteenth Century: With Biographical and Literary Notices of Those and Other British Cathokic Poets of Their Class, Comprising a Brief History of British Catholic Poetry from an Early Period....
New York: LP.J. Kenedy & Sons, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Dark green cloth with elaborate extensive gilt and black lettering and decorations. 319pp. All edges gilt. Near fine. Just the faintest of spine dulling. Item #48761
Handsome and quite tight undated but circa 1870s reprint edition of this combination anthology and critique -- whose already-verbose subtitle continues: "Designed Not Only for General Use, But Also as a Textbook or Reader, and a Prize-Book, for the Higher Classes in Catholic Educational Institutions." First published in 1868 in New York by The Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Company. A brilliant copy with gleaming gilt.
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