Author: [ Mauchlin-ware]
Title: THE POETICAL WORKS OF CAMPBELL, GOLDSMITH & GRAY
Description: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons 1870 Frontisplate & illustrations throughout. Fern-ware Mauchline-ware brown wooden boards highly glazed. . Small octavo brown morocco leather spine with 5 raised bands & gilt decorations & gilt rules. Spine holding the two wooden covers with the fern silhouetes and gilt decoration to reverse of boards. [some scratches to covers where rubbed] All edges gilt and all pages printed in red concentric ruled frames with black printed text inside. Engraved titlepage + viii [=frontis +printed decorated title + contents] + [half-title] + 445pp The poems are divided into three sections one for each poet and each poets work is preceded by his life history. The first few leaves of the book have a minimal amount of foxing. The last leaf and the last two free endpapers are much more foxed and a little tanned otherwise the paper is clean and crisp throughout the volume. There is a gift inscription to the front free endpaper dated Xmas day 1872.

Keywords: poetry in fern pattern wooden binding Mauchlinware


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