Author: GARRETT, EDMUND H. (COMPILER AND ILLUSTRATOR)
Title: Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature (Number 211 of a Limited Edition of 225 Copies)
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (so indicated by matching dates on title and on copyright page). Number 211 of a limited edition of 225 copies. A charming collection of romantic lyrics and poems by such notables as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (a/k/a "Miss Mulock"), Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and many others. Includes 20 full page black & white, color and sepia-toned tissue-guarded illustrations by compiler Edmund H. Garrett (as well as a few scattered within the text), and an index of first lines and a lengthy introduction by Edmund Gosse. --- In heavy vellum covers with titling and extensive decorations in gilt to cover and spine. Text presented on stiff Japan paper leaves. TEG (top edge gilt), remaining textblock edges deckled. --- The boards are slightly warped, else an unmarked, tightly-bound, sound copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xli, 228 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Illustrated Classics
Title: Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature (Number 211 of a Limited Edition of 225 Copies)
Description: Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1895. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (so indicated by matching dates on title and on copyright page). Number 211 of a limited edition of 225 copies. A charming collection of romantic lyrics and poems by such notables as Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (a/k/a "Miss Mulock"), Algernon Charles Swinburne, Alfred, Lord Tennyson and many others. Includes 20 full page black & white, color and sepia-toned tissue-guarded illustrations by compiler Edmund H. Garrett (as well as a few scattered within the text), and an index of first lines and a lengthy introduction by Edmund Gosse. --- In heavy vellum covers with titling and extensive decorations in gilt to cover and spine. Text presented on stiff Japan paper leaves. TEG (top edge gilt), remaining textblock edges deckled. --- The boards are slightly warped, else an unmarked, tightly-bound, sound copy.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xli, 228 pages. Very Good+ .
Keywords: >>Poetry >>Illustrated Classics
Price: US$ 139.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 88599
- Book number: 88599