The Oxford Book of English Prose.

QUILLER-COUCH, Sir Arthur Thomas.

Item Number: 129494

London: Oxford University Press, 1966.

Finely bound example of Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch’s monumental anthology of English prose. Octavo, bound in full crushed green morocco by Bayntun Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling and fleuron cornerpieces to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. A lovely example.

The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900, chosen and edited by Arthur Quiller-Couch, appeared in 1900. It rapidly established itself as the classic anthology of English poetry, running through twenty-one impressions in the next forty years and selling nearly half a million copies. In 1925, Quiller-Couch published a companion to his verse anthology: The Oxford Book of English Prose, which soon became equally as successful as its predecessor.