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Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1976. [Spanish Literature] LEATHER BOUND, first edition thus. Octavo (23 x 17cm), pp.[18] 625 [3]. With numerous wood-engraved illustrations by Dore, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and heavy gilt decoration to boards. All..... More
London: E. Moxon, Son, and Co., no date [1878]. [Illustrated Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Quarto (35 x 26cm), pp.16. With 37 steel-engraved plates by Dore, including a frontispiece, each with a tissue guard and a short passage of poetry facing. Publisher's red cloth, heavily decorated in black and gilt to spine..... More