Living Writers; Samuel Waddington — English Sonnets by Living Writers

London, George Bell and Sons, 1884. Cloth. A scarce second edition of this collection of sonnets from English writers, signed by Samuel Waddington. Second edition, enlarged. Scarce work. Signed by the author to the front endpaper with inscription in presentation to Cosmo Monkhouse, a British poet and critic. A collection of sonnets from English writers of the time, such as: Edward Dowden, Cosmo Monkhouse, Matthew Arnold, Philip Acton, Frances Anne Kemble, Aubrey de Vere, H. Wadsworth Longfellow, Sir Noel Paton, Christina Rossetti, John Addington Symonds, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Algernon Charles Swinburne, and many more. Selected and arranged with a note on the history of the sonnet by Samuel Waddington, a British civil servant, traveller and poet. In the original green cloth binding. Externally, smart with light bumping to the extremities. Splits in the cloth to the head and tail of the spine sympathetically repaired with paste. Fading to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd mark. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .