Charles Friend — Poems

London, Printed by Wertheimer, Lea and Co. 1893. Leather. A vanishingly scarce poetical volume from one Charles Friend, presented in a full blue morocco binding. A vanishingly scarce volume of poems by one Charles Friend. Handsomely bound in full blue morocco, with gilt, lovely decorative endpapers and dentelles. With the original blanks and half title. With red details to the page borders. Including works titled 'A Meditation in Montreux Cemetery', 'Alice', 'In the Valley of Chandron', 'To Augusta', 'Farewell to Florence' and 'Ideal Love' as well as a series of sonnets.Information on the poet is equally vanishingly scarce. Bound in full blue decorative morocco. Externally, very smart, with slight fading to the spine and minor rubbing to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with only a contemporary gift inscription to the front blank. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .