The Pelican Island & Other Poems

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A very good copy of the 1828 2nd edition. A presentation school copy. Leather bound with marbled boards, gilt titles and decorative embellishment. Five raised bands to the spine. Embossed presentation dedication to front board for Lombard High school in 1827. 264 pages. Published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green of London. Pelican Island was suggested by a passage in Captain Flinder's Voyage to Australia. The poem consists of 9 Cantos, the first 167 pages, followed by 28 further poems by Montgomery. Light wear to the boards and a little light foxing to the end papers. A very good copy.

120 GBP