PRESENTATION COPY

BAILEY, Philip James. Festus: a poem.

London. William Pickering, 1845. Second edition.

8vo. xvi, 396pp, [2]. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, later rebacked preserving majority of original back-strip. Extremities rubbed and marked. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of FFEP: '(?) James Fenton / With the Author's / compts.'

The revised and enlarged edition of Philip James Bailey's (1816-1902) widely celebrated interpretation of Goethe's Faust, first published in 1839.

£ 100.00 Antiquates Ref: 29555