MEREDITH, GEORGE. Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads. London: Chapman & Hall 1862. 12mo, original green wavy-grain cloth, uncut, rubbed, front inner hinge cracked, red halforocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, Carter's Binding A, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author at top of title-page: "[Jessie?] Prothero from GM"; with four single-word corrections in Meredith's hand on four different pages (we have not been able to identify the recipient -- the name "Prothero" does not appear in the index to Letters, ed. Cline). Laid in is an autograph letter signed from Meredith to another person ("Dear Madam"), Box Hill, Dorking, 18 November 1894, 1 page, 8vo, responding to an autograph request. Carter, More Binding Variants, pp. 25-26; Altschul Collection, pp. 83-84; Tinker 1551; Hayward 271.

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MEREDITH, GEORGE. Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside, with Poems and Ballads. London: Chapman & Hall 1862. 12mo, original green wavy-grain cloth, uncut, rubbed, front inner hinge cracked, red halforocco slipcase. FIRST EDITION, Carter's Binding A, PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author at top of title-page: "[Jessie?] Prothero from GM"; with four single-word corrections in Meredith's hand on four different pages (we have not been able to identify the recipient -- the name "Prothero" does not appear in the index to Letters, ed. Cline). Laid in is an autograph letter signed from Meredith to another person ("Dear Madam"), Box Hill, Dorking, 18 November 1894, 1 page, 8vo, responding to an autograph request. Carter, More Binding Variants, pp. 25-26; Altschul Collection, pp. 83-84; Tinker 1551; Hayward 271.