Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
( Gerard Manley HOPKINS ) GARDNER, W. H.
A Study of Poetic Idiosyncrasy in Relation to Poetic Tradition. With a Foreword by Gerard Hopkins. [Complete set of the Best Edition of the definitive critical study].
IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Secker & Warburg, [1948-49]
Stock code: 12763
Price: £80.00
2 vols., 8vo., Best Edition, on laid paper, with a plate and two large folding facsimiles of musical scores, some light spotting and offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; original blue cloth, gilt backs, edges a trifle dusty else a very good, clean set in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at heads and tails of backstrips.
This set comprises Vol. I (second and best edition, 1948) and Vol. II (first edition 1949). The first volume (1944) was substantially revised for this second and best edition. 'The nearest approach to a definitive critical study yet written' (Dunne). SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION. Dunne, H116 and H128 respectively; NCBEL, III, p. 584.