Author: GARRETT, EDMUND H. COLLECTED AND ILLUSTRATED BY (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EDMUND GOSSE)
Title: Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
Description: Boston, MA: Little Brown & Company, 1895. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. There are gilt decorations and lettering to the front cover and spine of the book. The spine ends and corners have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. Both front and rear endpapers have light generalized toning and spots of foxing. "During his lifetime, Garrett was a prolific illustrator of many books and publications, including various books of poetry by Tennyson, Keats, and Schiller; the Legends of King Arthur; Austen's Pride & Prejudice; Marie Louise de la Ramée's (Ouida's) A Dog of Flanders; stories by Alexandre Dumas; various books of Elizabethan and Victorian songs; and other books by Longfellow, Sir Walter Scott, Shelley, Wordsworth, and Hawthorne, among others. Today, Garrett's works adorn the walls of the Art Institute of Chicago, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the New York Public Library, the Boston Public Library, and the Massachusetts State House. Other works appear in collections at the Public Library in Winchester, Mass; Calumet Club (Boston, Mass. ) , Brookside Library; Conant Memorial Church; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.". Very Good+ .

Keywords: Poetry Edmund H. Garrett Edmund Gosse Victorian Poetry Victorian Songs Lyrics Illustrated Editions Poetry


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