EDWARD DOWDEN'S SET, PRESENTATION

The Letters of...Collected and Edited by Roger Ingpen. With Illiustrations.

London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1909.

Price: $750.00


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First edition, Copy no. 4 of 200 Large Paper Copies. lviii, 479; xvi, 481-1020 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. EDWARD DOWDEN'S SET, PRESENTATION. Bound in half publisher's black pebbled morocco and cloth, t.e..g, rest uncut. Fine.

Item #259154

Inscribed "To Professor Edward Dowden with Roger Ingpen's compliments & thanks Sept 6th, 1909." WITH a full page ALS to Dowden from Ingpen tipped in on the same date. Telling him he is sending this copy of his book which was to be published the next day, the 7th. One can see his acknowledgement to Dowden's scholarship on p. vi of the Preface and his thanks in this letter. A great association copy.