The Library of Edmund Gosse
( Edmund GOSSE ) COX (ed.), E.H.M.
Being a descriptive and bibliographical Catalogue of a Portion of his Collection, compiled by E.H.M. Cox. With an introductory Essay by Mr. Gosse.
Published: Dulau, 1924
Stock code: 25257
Price: £56.00
8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, page edges lightly browning as usual; black cloth, gilt back, gilt top, uncut, backstrip chafed at head and tail else a sound copy of an uncommon work.
Sold from an institution with the usual markings. '[An] important and valuable library' (de Ricci). Gosse was a close friend of T.J. Wise (to whom the work is dedicated) and an unwilling purchaser and recipient of several of the latter's forgeries. Wise was instrumental in publicising the successful sale of Gosse's library which realised a total of £26,615 at Sotheby's in 1928-29. See Partington, T.J. Wise in the Original Cloth.