Rupert Brooke The Complete Poems [Second Edition, Second Impression – Morrell Full Leather Binding]

Rupert Brooke

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Limited., London, 1943

About this Item

London: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, 1943, Second Edition, Second Impression.

Full blue calf leather binding by Morrell, photograph portrait frontispiece of the Author, gilt tiles to a plain spine, holograph manuscript of ?The Soldier? in facsimile, blue polished calf boards and gilt page edges. Inner gilt dentelles. Spine darkened.

Later impression of Brooke?s poems, thin pages (like, but slightly thicker than india paper) with frontispiece of Rupert Brooke in 1913.

Pagination: ix, [i], 167, [1]pp.

Provenance: signature for Pat Mackenna to the front end paper.

Approximately 7 ¾ inches tall (19.5cm).



Condition Report

Externally

Spine ? good condition ? faded and darkened, gilt titles, five raised bands with plain compartments, worn and rubbed.
Joints ? good condition ? sound, gently rubbed and worn.
Corners ? good condition ? gently rubbed and worn.
Boards ? good condition ? full blue calf, variably faded, minor marks.
Page edges ? good condition ? top edges gilt, others tanned.
Binding ? good condition ? attractive, signed binding.
See above and photos.

Internally

Hinges ? good condition ? sound.
Paste downs ? good condition ? marbled paper, leather gilt tooled turn-ins.
End papers ? good condition ? marbled paper, offsetting from the leather, binder?s stamp to the verso of the end paper.
Title ? good condition ? lightly tanned.
Pages ? good condition ? frontispiece of Rupert Brooke in 1913, pages are lightly tanned throughout, thin pages (not india paper).
See photos.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1756461698340

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rupert Brooke The Complete Poems [Second Edition, Second Impression ? Morrell Full Leather Binding]
• Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson Limited., London
• Publication Date: 1943
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Printing: 2nd Printing
• Condition: Good