The Dawn of Britain

One of a numbered edition limited to 535 copies, of which 500 offered for sale, this being No. 115. 692pp. In green cloth boards with gilt lettering front and spine, top edge sprayed, lower edge untrimmed (boards very slightly rubbed and rounded on corners). Lengthy but neat gift inscription on front free endpaper, giving details of Doughty's method, a few small pencil annotations in margins of introduction only, else internally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust jacket (rubbed and lightly chipped at edges, discoloured and mildly marked, minor loss at head of spine). Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. 8vo. This volume was issued to mark the centenary of the birth of Doughty; although Doughty is most widely known for this Travels in Arabia Deserta, his own main interest was in epic poetry. His poems are no less remarkable and important in their own sphere than his prose masterpiece, yet at the time they were largely known only to a small circle of scholars and students. The most important of his poems, The Dawn of Britain was originally published in six volumes; this was the first single volume edition. It is otherwise an exact reprint of the original multi-volume publication