Author: Low,Marie & Maud West
Title: THROUGH WOODLAND AND MEADOW & other poems with sketches from Nature
Description: London, Ernest Nister /New York,E.P.Dutton not after 1899 chromoliths on 12 quarter or half-pages with sepia line drawings on all other pages by Marie Low & Maud West. . lg 4to brown embossed cloth on bevelled boards with white wild roses,green leaves and pink buds all enhanced with much gilt and gilt titled to cover and spine.[tips sl.bumped else bright and clean] All Edges Gilt onpaginated but [48pp] printed on thick art paper. Poems by William Morris, C.Bingham, Edith Nesbit, Jean Ingelow among others. The end papers printed with gilt foliated overall design. Very Good condition, no tears, no pages coming loose, no sunning or marking on binding or contents. Bright and clearn. This copy with Large Prize label from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals with portrait of QUEEN VICTORIA as patroness and "presented to Winifered C.Chaut... at the Crystal Palace May 13th 1899"

Keywords: chromolithographs poetry Queen Victoria Presentation Crystal Palace


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