Author: HILL, George
Title: Selections from Pope, Dryden, and Various Other British Catholic Poets, Who Preceded the Nineteenth Century: With Biographical and Literary Notices of Those and Other British Cathokic Poets of Their Class, Comprising a Brief History of British Catholic Poetry from an Early Period...
Description: New York, LP.J. Kenedy & Sons, n.y. Hardcover. 12mo. Dark green cloth with elaborate extensive gilt and black lettering and decorations. 319pp. All edges gilt. Near fine. Just the faintest of spine dulling. Handsome and quite tight undated but circa 1870s reprint edition of this combination anthology and critique -- whose already-verbose subtitle continues: "Designed Not Only for General Use, But Also as a Textbook or Reader, and a Prize-Book, for the Higher Classes in Catholic Educational Institutions." First published in 1868 in New York by The Trow & Smith Book Manufacturing Company. A brilliant copy with gleaming gilt. .

Keywords: Religion Poetry


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