FITZGERALD, Edward; Charlotte QUARITCH WRENTMORE, editor.

Letters from Edward Fitzgerald to Bernard Quaritch, 1853 to 1883 … London, Quaritch, 1926.

8vo, pp. viii, 135, [1], with frontispiece portrait, 5 leaves of plates, and errata slip; slight spotting to first and last leaves, else a very good copy; publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; spine a little sunned.

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FITZGERALD, Edward; Charlotte QUARITCH WRENTMORE, editor.

Letters from Edward Fitzgerald to Bernard Quaritch, 1853 to 1883 … London, Quaritch, 1926.