Blind Mathilde Edited (4 results)

Cloth. Condition: G. In the Walter Scott Library. Maroon covers with gilt lettering to spine and blind-stamped "Walter Scott" monogram on front cover, 346pp plus 14pp of adverts. ND but late Victorian/early 20thC. Book has general wear to extremities, dusty page edges, modest foxing to prelims, a couple of small, light marks to covers and neat previous owner's sticker on front pastedown. Otherwise a very solid copy. Ref:082671.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Special edition of the Canterbury Poets. 16mo. Approximate measurements: 4" x 5 1/4". xxviii, 280pp., [8pp. advertisements.] Decorative three-quarter gilt-stamped red cloth with blue floral cloth boards and endpapers, all edges gilt. Small chip on bottom front fly corner, owner's name penned on preliminary page, near fine.

Green Hardback. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition Thus. 1900. First edition thus. xvii, 457pp. Top edge gilt. Mathilde Blind (1841-1896) was a German-born English poet, fiction writer, biographer, essayist and critic. Her best known work, included in this volume, is probably The Ascent of Man, in which she presents a distinctly feminist response to the Darwinian theory of evolution. This edition of her poetical works has been edited by Arthur Symons with a memoir by Richard Garnett. The book is bound in the original green cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine and a gold emblem bearing the initials BM on the front board. The case of the book is in very good condition with some shelf wear on the boards and bumping to the bottom corners and spine ends. The contents are tight and clean but unfortunately a previous owner has cut away the bottom 2 3/4" of pages 21/22 and top 3" of pages 23/24 (parts of the memoir). There is a hand-drawn book label on the front free endpaper but no inscription.

Condition: Good. No jacket, mild shelf wear to extremities. Previous owner name on half title page. Small tear/scuff to edge of rear board.