Author: John Milton; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; John Keats; et al.
Title: Poets and Painters
Description: London, Ward, Lock & Co. 1873. Cloth. A delightful and scarce collection of poems and engravings by eminent authors and artists. A scarce work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, with a colour plate to the front board. Also known as 'The Fields and The Woodlands, Depicted by Painter and Poet&apos. A lovely collection of poetry with well-known verses by John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Shakespeare, Lord Tennyson, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and William Cowper, among others. Included alongside these poems are three chromolithographs by the Leighton Brothers, who founded a printing firm for colour wood-engravings and lithographs. Lacking six plates. Undated, dated through copies held at University of Cambridge Libraries. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally generally smart, with a little fading to the spine, a mark to the front board and small losses to the colour plate to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot, except for offsetting to the half title page and the last page. Lacking six plates. Very Good . Ill.: Leighton Brothers. Very Good .

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