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Austin, Alfred Tower of Babel London  1890

Austin, Alfred. The Tower of Babel. A celestial love-drama. London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1890. vii(3), 182 pp. + a final leaf of advertisements. 8vo, original dark blue cloth. Second edition, "severely" revised, with a new dedication to Lord Lytton; first published in 1874. A long verse play. Alfred Austin became poet laureate in 1896; his appointment was widely greeted with ridicule, and his reputation has never recovered. A fine copy. CBEL III, 608; CBEL (3) IV, 700.

£25

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