POETRY OF THE YEAR : Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons. With Twenty Two Coloured Illustrations from Drawings By Eminent Artists

Published by George Bell, 186 Fleet St. London, 1854

About this Item

Delightful combination of fine Verse with fine Paintings. Complete with 22 Colour Plates, protected by thin paper guards. A very early example of Chromolithographs reproducing Paintings. Artists include Birket Foster, Harrison Weir and David Cox. Poets include Keats, Wordsworth, Cowper & Tennyson. Contemporary Red Cloth cover with fine indented Gilt Floral Decoration and title to front (same Decoration blind stamped on the back. All page edges Gilt. 10 1/2" Tall, 102 pages. 770g. Cloth Backstrip missing from spine and all pages, Plates and Guards loose, but Complete. Nice Gift inscription on ffep dated 1857. No other inscriptions. Pages and Plates in very nice, clean condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Seller Inventory # 012909

Bibliographic Details

Title: POETRY OF THE YEAR : Passages from the Poets...

Publisher: George Bell, 186 Fleet St. London

Publication Date: 1854

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good+