Author: [Edited by Joseph Cundall]
Title: POETRY OF THE YEAR Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons. With Twenty Two Coloured Illustrations from Drawings By Eminent Artists.
Description: London, George Bell 1854 chromolithographs mounted onto the textpage [22] from drawings by Birket Foster,Harrison Weir,W.Hemsley,E.V.B.[Boyle],Milton & J.Wolf etc. . lg.8vo red grained cloth overall gilt floral design to cover and spine with lower cover with the same pattern blindstamped on bevelled boards [neatly rebacked with 95% of the original relaid/edges a bit rubbed/corners worn] All Edges Gilt Frontispiece + viii + 102pp Printed in colours by Messrs.M.& H.Hanhart and Day & Son. Text within ruled borders printed by Richard Clay to Colophon. All plates have a preceding blank guard sheet. The poetry y Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Longfellow,Mrs.Hemans, Keats Tennyson, Southey,Cowper etc. Newer endpapers else all pages clean, tightly bound in and unmarked. Poetry divided into four seasonal sections.

Keywords: Color illustrated poetry Gift Book


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