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BRIDGES, Robert (1844-1930). Poems. London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 1873. 8vo. Morocco-backed slipcase, chemise. Publisher’s blue cloth with paper spine label (covers rubbed, front hinge separated). Inscription on front free endpaper to noted poet and book collector Frederick Locker-Lampson which reads, “With the publisher’s compliments.” SHEET ADDRESSED TO LAMPSON AND SIGNED ON VERSO BY ROBERT BRIDGES INCLUDED. Provenance: Frederick Locker-Lampson (bookplate), Osmond Kessler Fraenkel (bookplate). PRIVATE FIRST EDITION PRINTING OF FUTURE POET LAUREATE BRIDGES’S FIRST BOOK. Robert Bridges wrote Poems while studying medicine at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London, intending to practice until he turned forty and then devote himself to writing full-time. Five hundred copies of Poems were initially printed, however Bridges changed his mind about the works soon afterwards and had Poems withdrawn from circulation.