[Copeland & Day | Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue] Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford

A rarely encountered Copeland & Day imprint with striking Goodhue decorations

Guiney, Louise Imogen. Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford. Copeland & Day, 1895. “These nine sonnets written at Oxford by Louise Imogen Guiney and decorated by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue are privately issued for them and their friends and for Herbert Copeland and F.H. Day and their friends at Christmas MDCCCXCV the printing having been done at the University Press in Cambridge Massachusetts.” Engraved double title page and multiple initials designed by Goodhue. Bookplate of Helena Rowe Fuller. Measures approx. 4.75" x 6.5". Light chipping and browning to edges of wrappers. Crease to corner of rear cover. Split at spine repaired. 

“One of Goodhue’s most splendid - and most architectural - book designs” (Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900, Ralph Adams Cram: Life and Architecture, Shand-Tucci, 1995). 

“Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford was considered by many to be one of the finest collections of sonnets published during the nineteenth century” (Great Writers of the English Language, Vinson & Kirkpatrick, 1979).