[Rarebooks] FS: Edmund Gosse's copy of Coventry Patmore's TAMERTON CHURCH-TOWER, with ALS to Gosse from Patmore

[Charles Agvent]

              Another fine Coventry Patmore item from our list of recent new 
arrivals at http://www.erols.com/agvent


              PATMORE, Coventry. Edmund Gosse's copy. TAMERTON CHURCH-
          TOWER AND  OTHER POEMS. London: John W. Parker and Son  1854.
          First Edition.  Original  brown  cloth,  spine  with  printed
          label;  this  copy  with  the second title  page,  the  first
          having  an 1853 Pickering imprint. This copy from the library
          of Edmund  Gosse  with his bookplate on the  front  pastedown
          and a 2-page  AUTOGRAPH  LETTER  SIGNED by Patmore  to  Gosse
          tipped    to  the  front   gutter.  Patmore   discusses   the
          illumination  and  binding of a book in the  letter,  stating
          that Zaehnsdorf  is expensive. Light cracking to front  hinge
          but a nice copy. Near Fine                            $350.00

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