The best love poems collection
- Bib ID:
- 7342408
- Format:
- Book
- Edition:
- Limited edition.
- Description:
-
- Montreal : Roger Huet, publisher, 1996-1997
- 8 volumes : illustrations (some colour) ; 26 mm
- ISBN:
-
- 289277070X (Sonnet XLIII from the Portuguese)
- 9782892770704 (Sonnet XLIII from the Portuguese)
- 2892770718 (To)
- 9782892770711 (To)
- 2892770726 (Exile)
- 9782892770728 (Exile)
- 2892770734 (Dying is a pleasure)
- 9782892770735 (Dying is a pleasure)
- 2892770742 (Huesca)
- 9782892770742 (Huesca)
- 2892770750 (Did not)
- 9782892770759 (Did not)
- 2892770831 (She walks in beauty)
- 9782892770834 (She walks in beauty)
- 289277084X (Love emblems)
- 9782892770841 (Love emblems)
- Invalid ISBN:
- 28927708311 (She walks in beauty)
- Series:
- Gerrit Stafford miniature book collection.
- Full contents:
-
- Sonnet XLIII from the Portuguese / Elizabeth B. Browning
- To / Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Exile / Ernest Dowson
- Dying is a pleasure / John Dryden
- Huesca / John Cornford
- Did not / Thomas Moore
- She walks in beauty / Lord Byron
- Love emblems / John Fletcher.
- Notes:
-
- Issued in case with snap, 76 x 99 x 35 mm; title from label printed in cut-out window in bottom of case,which has small cameo above title.
- Edition limited to 199 copies.
- All the frontispieces are hand coloured. Over 138 illustrations embellish the collection. Each book has been carefully hand sewn. Marbled endpapers. Gold stamped designs reproduced from books which belonged to the Royal houses of France, England and Sweden. A book case designed by Mark Duke, a Montreal miniature cabinet maker accompanies the collection. It has a small cameo above top shelf.
- Library's copy is numbered 50/199 and signed by R. Huet on tipped-in "Autograph" sheet
- Subject:
- Place:
- Canada Québec (Province) Montréal.
- Other authors/contributors:
-
- Huet, Roger, 1943-
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Sonnet XLIII from the Portuguese
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822. To
- Dowson, Ernest Christopher, 1867-1900. Exile
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Dying is a pleasure
- Cornford, John, 1915-1936. Huesca
- Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852. Did not
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. She walks in beauty
- Fletcher, John, 1579-1625. Love emblems
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1997
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