The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909

Dublin / London: Hodges, Figgis & Co., Ltd. / Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909.

Price: $300.00

Hardcover. First edition, thick paper issue. Edited by John Cooke. Octavo. 804pp. Green cloth gilt. Owner's early bookplate dated 1915 on front pastedown, endpapers a little foxed, and crown very slightly worn, a very good or better copy. Contains three early poems by James Joyce. This issue printed on heavy stock paper is an unrecorded variant not cited by the bibliographer with the following differences: sheets bulk 1 3/8 inches instead of 9/32 inches, top edge gilt instead of all edges gilt, lower spine has publisher's name in two lines instead of three cited by *Slocum and Cahoon* B3.

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Item #508897 The Dublin Book of Irish Verse 1728-1909. John COOKE, James Joyce.