The Slopes of Helicon and Other Poems. de [GOSSE, Sir Edmund]. Mifflin, Lloyd

Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1898. . 12mo, navy-blue ribbed cloth, front and spine gilt, spine a trifle faded with two very small spots INSCRIBED on the front free endpaper: "To Edmund Gosse Esq. with the affections of Lloyd Mifflin. Columbia. Pa. 'Alas,' they sighed, 'these urns are full of tears.' pg. 61."LAID IN is a 2-page letter to Gosse dated Ap. 29, 1898 sending him the book; he explains that it is many years since he gave up painting and trusts"the piping of my meadow-lark notes will not bore you--you who are so used to the Greek nightingales."