Description
8vo, pp. xvi, 242, [2]. Original red pebbled cloth, boards bordered with blind rules, spine lettered direct in gilt, edges sprinkled red. A touch toned. Unevenly sunned, particularly to spine. Some numerical jottings to pastedown.
£150
8vo, pp. xvi, 242, [2]. Original red pebbled cloth, boards bordered with blind rules, spine lettered direct in gilt, edges sprinkled red. A touch toned. Unevenly sunned, particularly to spine. Some numerical jottings to pastedown.
Fitzgerald had been attempting to interest publishers in an edition of the works of George Crabbe, edited and annotated to remove the sections Fitzgerald didn't like, since at least the 1860s. By 1879 he had 350 copies printed by Billing and Sons of Guildford, which were published by Quaritch in 1882. Finally, the following year, a few weeks before his death he directed Billings to print 200 copies of a new revised introduction for the work. Fitzgerald died in June, and the new introduction came back from the printers in July, whereupon it was sent to Quaritch who had it bound with the unsold sheets of the previous print-run, producing this book.