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Francis Coutts - The Song of Songs: A Lyrical Folk-Play of the Ancient Hebrews Arranged in VII Scenes

Title: The Song of Songs: A Lyrical Folk-Play of the Ancient Hebrews Arranged in VII Scenes
Description: London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1906. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this charming folk-play from Francis Coutts, with illustrations. First edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and five plates. Collated complete. A lyrical folk-play following the Song of Songs, a book in the Hebrew Bible containing a series of love songs expressing the anguish of mutual love. Written by Francis Coutts, an English solicitor, poet, and librettist. Illustrated by Henry Ospovat, a Russian painter, illustrator, draughtsman, and caricaturist who settled in Manchester, England. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities and fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound though page thirty has come loose. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Henry Ospovat. Very Good .

Keywords: Song Songs Lyrical Folk-Play Songs Coutts Ospovat Henry Ospovat

Price: GBP 55.00 = appr. US$ 78.54 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 859T17

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