The Growth of Love, Robert Bridges, 1896, VG+ HC & NF DJ

Bridges, Robert,  Portland, Maine: Brown Thurston Company, 1896, #207/400, Very Good +, 8vo, 5 ¼” x 8 ¼”, 79 pp.

Very Good + octavo, cream paper over cardstock, bumping to tips, sunning to front and back pastedown and free endpaper, deckle-edged pages. Near Fine dust jacket, cream with black and red lettering to front cover and spine, sunning around edges, creasing to spine, edgewear, 79 pp. Introduction by poet and critic Lionel Johnson. Printed for Thomas B. Mosher. First anniversary edition. A sonnet sequence reflecting on idealized love, philosophical longing, and the moral imagination of the late Victorian period by Poet Laureate, Robert Bridges.