The Christian Year. Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year
London, Peacock, Mansfield and Britton, 1870 (extra-illustrated edition, using the sheets of the 131st edition published by James Parker and Co., Oxford).
Small octavo, xii, 383 pages plus a duplicate title leaf printed in gold, list of illustrations, 13 original albumen paper photographs (one mounted on the duplicate title leaf, 12 mounted on gold-bordered leaves).
Full brown morocco with a gilt-edged red morocco onlay in the shape of a cross on the front cover; spine compartments and sides bordered in blind; all edges gilt; covers a little rubbed and marked; spine a little sunned; a very good copy.
A deluxe edition of Keble's influential collection of poems, extra-illustrated with 13 original photographs of important religious paintings. This copy comes from the collection of South Australian pastoralist Henry Dutton (1844-1914), and contains an additional albumen paper photograph portrait of him mounted on the recto of the frontispiece. A calligraphic inscription in red and black on an early blank reads: 'An Offering to Henry Dutton from the Chorister Boys of Christ Church, North Adelaide, October 1871'.
Item #114169
Price (AUD):
$350.00