Author: Thomas Hood
Title: Poems
Description: London, E. Moxon, Son & Co, 1872. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated edition of Thomas Hood's poetry, in the publisher's original cloth binding with drawings by Birket Foster. 1873 Ed, in the original cloth binding bound by Leighton Son and Hodge. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one other illustrated plate engravings by Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899). Foster was a British illustrator, watercolourist, and engraver who provided drawings for works like 'Punch' magazine as well as poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This is a lovely collection of poetry by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), the English poet, author, and humorist. Hood wrote regularly for various magazine publications and even published his own magazine containing his own works. Contents include 'The Dream of Eugene Aram', 'Autumn', 'The Flower', 'The Lay of the Labourer', 'The Haunted House', and 'The Mermaid of Margate&apos. With four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear of text. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the extremities and the head and tail of spine, with fading to spine.Paste downs and endpapers have a few marks, with bookbinder's label to rear paste down. Pencil marks to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout, with age-toning to text and scattered light spotting to the text which increases to the first and last few pages. Tissue guard to frontispiece is torn. Very Good . Ill.: Birket Foster. Very Good .
Keywords: Poems by Thomas Hood Poetry Birket Foster The Mermaid of Margate Poetry Birket Foster
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Title: Poems
Description: London, E. Moxon, Son & Co, 1872. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated edition of Thomas Hood's poetry, in the publisher's original cloth binding with drawings by Birket Foster. 1873 Ed, in the original cloth binding bound by Leighton Son and Hodge. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one other illustrated plate engravings by Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899). Foster was a British illustrator, watercolourist, and engraver who provided drawings for works like 'Punch' magazine as well as poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This is a lovely collection of poetry by Thomas Hood (1799-1845), the English poet, author, and humorist. Hood wrote regularly for various magazine publications and even published his own magazine containing his own works. Contents include 'The Dream of Eugene Aram', 'Autumn', 'The Flower', 'The Lay of the Labourer', 'The Haunted House', and 'The Mermaid of Margate&apos. With four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear of text. Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Light bumping to the extremities and the head and tail of spine, with fading to spine.Paste downs and endpapers have a few marks, with bookbinder's label to rear paste down. Pencil marks to endpapers. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean throughout, with age-toning to text and scattered light spotting to the text which increases to the first and last few pages. Tissue guard to frontispiece is torn. Very Good . Ill.: Birket Foster. Very Good .
Keywords: Poems by Thomas Hood Poetry Birket Foster The Mermaid of Margate Poetry Birket Foster
Price: GBP 85.00 = appr. US$ 121.38 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 820D5
- Book number: 820D5
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