JOHN SARGEAUNT. — Westminster Verses. With a memoir by Rev. Dr. James Gow.
T. Fisher & Unwin Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First edition, printed at The Shakespeare Head Press and limited to 400 numbered copies (this being #163). Square 8vo. 84pp. Parchment-covered boards with bevelled edges, lettered in gold at the spine and upper board. Tissue-protector portrait frontispiece, with some quite light offsetting from the tissue to the adjacent title page. Some toning and marking to the boards, alongside several inches of quite light staining. With some wear to the extremities, and some toning to the free endpapers. A good copy, really very crisp internally. No dust wrapper. A dedicatory verse and a twenty-two page memoir precedes twenty-two poems. A posthumously published collection of verse, all of which is hitherto unprinted in bookform, by the noted classical scholar and schoolmaster, who was the President of the Oxford Union Society and later taught at Westminster School for nearly thirty years., Good, No Jacket