Shelfmark
Lb.5.48 (Copy 1)
Additional shelfmark
Lb.5.49 (Copy 2)
Additional shelfmark
Ko.3.13 (Copy 3)
Author
Title
The testament of beauty : a poem in four books / by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Oxford : at the Clarendon Press, 1929.
Physical description
[8], 191, [1] p. ; 19 cm.
Note
With a half-title.
Note
Publisher's note on the text printed on heavy cream paper, tipped-in between p.192 and back endpaper.
Note
Publisher's cream paper boards with lettering stamped in gold within blind-stamped decorative frames on front board and spine. With dust-jacket.
Provenance
[Copy 2] Ms. inscription: "Rebecca Wicksteed from Robert Bridges, Jan 4. 1930".
Provenance
[Copy 3] Initialled in blue ink "M.E.N." i.e. Margaret Edina Newbolt. Loosely inserted note dated 28 October [19]29 from "H.N." [Sir Henry Newbolt] to "My dear B. [i.e. Bridges?]", thanking him for a "very great gift". Annotations in pencil in the margins and on publisher's note and endleaf.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 1] Leaves un-opened.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 2] Sixth impression; lacking dust-jacket; lacking publisher's note on the text; first leaves un-opened; ms. bookseller's note and price in pencil.
Copy-specific note
[Copy 3] Front panel only of dust-jacket loosely inserted.
Added entry--name
Wicksteed, Rebecca former owner.
Added entry--name
Newbolt, Margaret Edina Duckworth, 1867 - ? Lady former owner.
Added entry--name
Newbolt, Henry John, 1862 - 1938 Sir correspondent.
Added entry--name
Bridges, Robert Seymour, 1844 - 1930 associated name.
Added entry--name
Oxford University Press publisher.
Added entry--place
England Oxford.
Identifier
B19739