HOPKINS (Gerard Manley)

Poems, edited with Notes by Robert Bridges. Second edition with an Appendix of Additional Poems, and a Critical Introduction by Charles Williams.

With 3 photographic portraits and 2 double-page facsimiles. Number 36 of 250 numbered copies. Second (expanded) edition. 8vo., a very good copy in original quarter parchment, lettered in gilt, over grey and black patterned boards, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Oxford University Press. London, Humphrey Milford, 1930.

£1,000.00

A very good copy, the vellum spine very slightly marked. With sixteen additional poems to the first edition of 1918: “Spring and Death”, “The Escorial”, “A Vision of the Mermaids”, “Barnfloor and Winepress”, “The Nightingale”, “Nondum”, “Ester”, “Lines for a Picture of St. Dorothea”, “Winter with the Gulf Stream”, “Ad Mariam”, “Rosa Mystica”, “Margaret Clitheroe”, “On St. Winefred”, “O Deus, ego amo te”, “S. Thomae Aquinatis” and “Oratio Patris Condren”. Dunne A73.

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