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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st impression (true first). xxxii, 164pp. Tissue-guarded plate frontispiece. Copiously illustrated by Hugh Thompson, some full page, and other decorations. Green cloth boards decorated with gilt stamping, the front board showing an angler fishing from a bridge (a reference to Coridon's Song which is taken from Walton's Angler). All edges gilt. Coloured endpapers. 12mo. Lightly rubbed at edges and light rusting on plain prelims, else very fresh pages. Tight and clean. A lovely anthology made special by Thompson's often humourous illustrations. Gift quality. Thompson, Hugh (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Slight lean. Points beginning to fray. Edwin A. Abbey & Alfred Parsons (illustrator).

Hardback. Black and White illustrations. Small edition. 16mo (around 16cm tall). Vellum-like spine. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Full morocco, 10 inches tall. A stunning full crushed morocco bound by Riviere in 1895 in absolutely pristine condition. With gilt raised bands and exquisite floral gilt tooling to the panels. The boards framed within a triple gilt fillet. Wide gilt dentelles and gilt top edges, the remaining edges untrimmed. This is one of 152 large paper copies. This copy is signed by Hugh Thomson on the title page. The original cloth covers and wraps fot the large paper and ordinary paper editions are bound in. With 76 illustrations by Hugh Thompson who has signed the title page. A wonderful copy of these beautifully illustrated English poems.…