Songs Before Sunrise
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1871
F.S. Ellis
Second Edition
8vo
Description:
Second Edition of Algernon Charles Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise, published in London by F.S. Ellis in 1871, in octavo. It is Swinburne's most political book of verse, a celebration of the struggle for Italian liberty and unification and of republican freedom more widely. It marks a turn from the scandalous mood of Poems and Ballads (1866) to a more openly political voice.
Condition:
Very Good Condition. Pictorial cloth with gilt vignettes to front board. Binding is firm and contents are clean. Exlibris plate to inside front cover. Boards are good with minor wear just general marking to boards.
Songs Before Sunrise
Algernon Charles Swinburne
1871
F.S. Ellis
Second Edition
8vo
Description:
Second Edition of Algernon Charles Swinburne's Songs Before Sunrise, published in London by F.S. Ellis in 1871, in octavo. It is Swinburne's most political book of verse, a celebration of the struggle for Italian liberty and unification and of republican freedom more widely. It marks a turn from the scandalous mood of Poems and Ballads (1866) to a more openly political voice.
Condition:
Very Good Condition. Pictorial cloth with gilt vignettes to front board. Binding is firm and contents are clean. Exlibris plate to inside front cover. Boards are good with minor wear just general marking to boards.
