[Extra Illustrated with Illumination by William Cushing Bamburgh] Selected Poems of Matthew Prior E-List 23 The Alphabet

The Alphabet

74: mezzotint of John Coke (Secretary of State to Charles I) by George White

“Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford was considered by many to be one of the finest collections of sonnets published during the nineteenth century” (Great Writers of the English Language

Charles Cobb Walker's bookplate by Rudolph Ruzicka to front pastedowns

[Extra Illustrated with Illumination by William Cushing Bamburgh] Selected Poems of Matthew Prior E-List 23 The AlphabetPrior, Matthew. Selected Poems of Matthew Prior. Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, London, 1889. Printed at the Chiswick Press. Large paper edition, limited to 50 copies, of which this is #36. Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece. Printed on handmade paper. With an introduction and notes by Austin Dobson. Bound in burgundy crushed morocco by MacDonald with gilt rule and small gilt stamps in each corner of the covers. Spine features the same stamp to