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The Poetical Works of John Payne [Two Volumes].
London: Printed for the Villon Society by Private Subscription and For Private Circulation Only, 1902. viii, 399 pp.; viii, 394 pp. + adv. [1 pp]. 8vo. Parchment covered boards, gilt titles, gilt and green stamped decorations; fore and bottom edges deckled, top edge gilt. Definitive edition. Very good copies, boards and spine rubbed, mainly on volume II, minor foxing mostly to endpapers, leaves crisp and bright. A nice set of this Villon Society production. Item #26719
Publisher's erratum tipped in on contents page Vol I. No. 6 of an unknown number of copies. This is the octavo edition; there is also a large paper edition. Vol I: Narrative Poems; Vol II: London City Poems, Sonnets, Lyrics and Translations. John Payne (1842-1916) English poet and translator, though much praised for his poetry by his contemporaries such as Matthew Arnold and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, is perhaps better known for his translations.
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