Author: Frances Blanshard
Title: Portraits of Wordsworth
Description: London, George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1959. First edition. Cloth. Publisher's blue cloth binding with silver titles to spine. In original dust jacket. A first ediiton with 48 plates depicting 63 individual portraits. "Here is a new kind of book about Wordsworth, a study ofthe surprisingly large number of portarits made during his life and immediately after his death. Reproduced here are sixty three, ranging from a tiny black paper silhoutte t o the life-size statue in Westminster Abbey. They show what artists of many skills could make of a man who stood for "The Poet" in the public mind." from the dust jacket. In a cloth binding in the original dustwrapper. The binding is tight and firm and both covers are firmly attached. There is very little wear to the extremities. The dust jacket has some handling marks, a stain to the spine and some sunning to the spine. There are a couple of closed tears also but it is intact and has not been price clipped. Internally the book is generally clean and bright apart from the occasional mild spot and a small pen line to the fore edge. Good . Ill.: Frances Blanshard. Good/Good.

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