Alfred Austin - Lamia&Apos;S Winter-Quarters

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. Cloth. A smart copy of this charming work from English poet Alfred Austin, with illustrations throughout. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, fifteen colour plates, and numerous in-text images. Collated complete. An account of a sojourn in a Tuscan villa above Florence, with charming lyrical descriptions and poems as well as prose text. Written by Alfred Austin, an English poet who was appointed Poet Laureate. Illustrated by George Samuel Elgood, an English artist and illustrator who became well known for his paintings of formal gardens. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and minor fading to the spine. Small splits in the cloth to the head of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with light scattered spotting and age toning to the endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Very Good . Ill.: George S. Elgood. Very Good .

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