Author: SC Hall [ed.]
Title: The Book of Gems: The Modern Poets and Artists of Great Britain
Description: London, Whittaker & Co. c1842. Leather. Anthology celebrative of British poetry and art, featuring prominent authors including Shelley and Byron among others. Edited by Victorian journalist C S Hall. Dated via Jisc. Featuring prominent poets including Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Southey, Scott, Coleridge, Hunt, Wolfe, and more. Illustrated with striking engraved vignettes throughout protected with tissue guards, as well as four leaves of facsimile signatures to rear. Collated, complete. With half title. In half straight up grain morocco binding over marbled boards with marbled edges and endpapers, signed Mudie. Gilt lettering and tooling to spine. Externally with rubbing to joints and extremities of spine and boards. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting scattered to leaves. Good Only . Ill.: Various. Good Only .

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