JOHNSON, Lionel.

The Religious Poems of Lionel Johnson.

Being a Selection of His Collected Works. [Edited by George F. Engelbach]. With a Preface by Wilfrid Meynell. Title page with woodcut by Herbert Horne of William of Wykeham. First edition. 8vo., original purple cloth, lettered in gilt, with gilt device on front cover. London: Elkin Mathews and Burns & Oates, 1916.

£40.00

Spine very slightly faded, but a very good copy in Binding A. One leaf of ads at end. The preface is perhaps not a model of scholarly accuracy. Per BM Add MS. 50927 Chiswick Press Archive, p. 233, 29 November 1916, the crown 8vo [i.e., small-paper] printing consisted of 500 copies for the American issue and 750 for the English, as well as “300 + 10“ copies on large paper. Nelson, EM, 1916.24.

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