Author: Sir Arthur Gorges, Helen Estabrook Sandison [ed/]
Title: The Poems of Sir Arthur Gorges
Description: Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1953. First edition. Cloth. a superb first edition copy of this book comprising a collection of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges. The first edition of this work. With an informative introduction by Helen Estabrook Sandison. A collection of poems by Sir Arthur Gorges, sea captain as well as poet , translator, and courtier. This particular volume being the former personal copy of Sir Roy Strong, with his bookplate to front pastedown. He was an art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster, and landscape designer. Particularly, he was the director of the National Gallery in London as well as the Victoria and Albert Museum. With unclipped dustwrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding, with titles stamped in gilt to spine. Externally attractive, with minor shelfwear and only slight bumping to head and tail of spine. Dr. Roy Strong's bookplate to front pastedown. Dustwrapper is unclipped and very smart, with slight edge wear and chipping to extremities. Slight sunning to spine of wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Illustrated. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Very Good Indeed.

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