Thomas Lovell Beddoes; Sir Edmund Gosse [editor] — The Complete Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

London, Fanfrolico Press, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A smart set of this limited edition collection of the works of English author Thomas Lovell Beddoes. Complete in two volumes. Limited to seven hundred and fifty copies, of which this is number thirty-one. Illustrated with portrait frontispiece and decorated by The Dance of Death, a great grim triumph of Renaissance woodblock printing by Hans Holbein, a German-Swiss painter and printmaker of Norther Renaissance style considered one of the greatest portraitists of the sixteenth century. The complete letters, poetry, and dramatic pieces of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, an English poet, dramatist, and physician, whose work shows a constant preoccupation with death. Collected and edited by Sir Edmund Gosse, an English poet, author, and critic. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright with the odd small spot and light age toning to the extremities. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .