A Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics Palgrave MAXFIELD PARRISH 1911 1st For Sale

A Golden Treasury of Songs and Lyrics, selected and arranged byFrancis Turner Palgrave, with pictures in color by MAXFIELD PARRISH.Duffield & Company, New York, 1911. FIRST EDITION. Quarto, 373 pp.Palgrave\'s immortal anthology — Shakespeare, Milton, Keats, Tennyson,Shelley — illustrated by Parrish at the height of his powers, withEIGHT color plates (including frontispiece), each with its captionedtissue guard, plus the illustrated frame endpapers. This copy\'s textblock is substantially UNOPENED — the book was never read.Period gift inscription on the half-title, dated Christmas 1911 — alovely contemporary provenance.CONDITION: Covers near fine — blue cloth clean, gilt bright, colorpaste-down unfaded. All eight plates PRISTINE. Tissue guards present;TWO guards show small edge tears (see photos) — cosmetic only, theplates themselves unaffected. Text block substantially unopened;pages clean.NOTED FLAW: the front hinge is cracked and the text block isloose/detaching at the front — a known issue with this heavy volume(see photos); the book wants careful handling or light conservation.No dust jacket. A small pencil price notation on the flyleaf has beenerased.Shipped carefully packed via Media Mail.Curated by Blackwood Foundlings