The Oxford Companion to English Literature | Folio Society Special Publication

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The Oxford Companion to English Literature
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, reprint 1960 (of the 1946 Third Edition)

Issued to members of The Folio Society as a ‘Special Publication’ from 1960.

Hardback. Publisher’s full blue morocco binding with title and decoration in gilt to spine and decoration in gilt and blind to upper board; top edge gilt to page-block; marbled endpapers; head and tail bands; sewn-in ribbon page-marker. pp viii, 932. Size: 9.5 x 6.5 inches approx. (239mm x 166mm).

Leather a little marked and scuffed in places, light shelf wear to extremites and some creasing to spine; boards lightly knocked to corners; a hint of sunning to spine. Offsetting to endpapers (to margins over the leather turn-ins); pages lightly age-toned and some spotting to edges but generally very clean throughout.

Overall, a particularly well preserved copy – lovely indeed.

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References

[A2] Folio 60 – A Bibliography of The Folio Society 1947-2006

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Weight 2.5 kg