Alfred Austin, Victorian

FIRST EDITION 8vo. clothbound hardback in dust jacket. 296pp., indexed, with b/w frontispiece. A clean copy with no previous owners' markings or inscriptions. Dust jacket not price-clipped. Light foxing to foredge only. Dust jacket slightly browned at edges and spine slightly faded. Light wear with a few small chips and tears. Overall VG in Good dust jacket. 'Today, Alfred Austin is remembered, perhaps with a certain affection, as the writer of some of the worst verse in English language.'