Published by Walter Scott, London & Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1886
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. 24mo, lxxxi, 324, iv pages, blue cloth, paper label on spine, foxing, untrimmed. Presentation inscription from Sharp to W. [?} A. Turner Esq, dated "January/86". That is at least 16 days earlier than the earliest copy cited by Colbeck's catalogue of his Victoriana, p. 739. Includes the proposed first book appearance of Oscar Wilde's sonnet, "On the Sale of Keats' Love-letters" [ not in Mason]. Contains 265 sonnets, plus a long introduction and Notes by Sharp. Issued in the Canterbury Poets series. Rare thus.