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BAILEY, Philip James. Festus: a poem.

London. William Pickering, 1852. Fifth edition.
8vo. [4], 562pp, [2]. Bound by Henderson & Bisset in contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, marbled boards, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of Church of England clergyman John Mitchell Harvey (1835-1876) to FEP, scattered spotting.
A handsomely bound copy of a revised and enlarged edition of Philip James Bailey's (1816-1902) widely celebrated interpretation of Goethe's Faust, first published in 1839.
£ 75.00 Antiquates Ref: 30446