Oxford Edition; The Golden Treasury; Francis Turner Palgrave, 1936

Oxford Edition; The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language. Selected and Arranged with Notes by Francis Turner Palgrave. With Additional Poems.

Various authors including Shakespeare, Spencer, Milton, Bacon, Scott, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Browning et al.

Published by Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press, London, 1936 reprint of the Third (and further enlarged) edition. 

A very good book bound in dark green morocco leather with lined gilt decoration and lightly raised bands. With shiny gilt text block edges and page marker ribbon. The marbled endpapers are cracked at inner hinge, but all still soundly bound.

The text is bright and clean throughout. Nicely presented.

Text in English.

xiv + 541pp.

Weight approximately 539g (unpacked).

Approx Dimensions: 

Approximately 185mm high x 130mm wide x 30mm deep.