Privately Printed, [1905].
A collection of qotations and maxims, one of each day of the year, some with a Christian message. Authors include Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas à Kempis, Dante, Robert Lowell, Robert Browning, Tennyson, Wordsworth, Marcus Aurelius, George Eliot, etc.
Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby (1856 –1927) was a British headmistress of Oxford High School for Girls. She notably opposed women's suffrage.
First edition; 8vo (226 x 147 mm); foxing to blank preliminary and terminal leaves, otherwise some very minor, light spotting to a few peripheral edges towards the rear, else very good; contemporary full green morocco by Birdsall, Northampton gilt embossed to upper dentelle), decorative gilt panels, gilt laurel wreath enclosing the initials of O.L.W., marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, rubbed, a fw superficial scratches, offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good, attractive copy.
Lucy Helen Muriel Soulsby (1856 –1927) was a British headmistress of Oxford High School for Girls. She notably opposed women's suffrage.
First edition; 8vo (226 x 147 mm); foxing to blank preliminary and terminal leaves, otherwise some very minor, light spotting to a few peripheral edges towards the rear, else very good; contemporary full green morocco by Birdsall, Northampton gilt embossed to upper dentelle), decorative gilt panels, gilt laurel wreath enclosing the initials of O.L.W., marbled endpapers and all edges gilt, rubbed, a fw superficial scratches, offsetting to endpapers, otherwise a very good, attractive copy.
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