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DIXON, W[illiam] Macneile. The edinburgh book of scottish verse 1300-1900.

London. Meiklejohn and Holden, 1910. First edition.
8vo. xx, 938pp, [2]. With a half-title. Finely bound by Zaehnsdorf (stamp-signed to front turn-in) in contemporary gilt-ruled red morocco, red and green morocco thistle onlays to upper board and within spine compartments. Marbled endpapers, T.E.G. Very lightly rubbed and marked. Armorial bookplate (signed W.P.B. 1909) to FEP. Internally clean & crisp; overall a fine copy.
The first edition, handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf, of an exhaustive anthology of Scottish poetry from its earliest specimens to modern achievements, compiled by British writer and academic William Macneile Dixon (1866-1946), professor of English Literature in the University of Glasgow.
£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 34514