Nesbit Robert Ellice Mack Editors (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1900. Undated, circa 1900. Illustrated selections from famous poets and authors. Light green color illustrated cover with sepiatone pastoral engravings throughout. Authors include: E. Nesbit; Swinburne; Pope; Milnes; Spofford; and John Payne, among others. The book is in generally good condition with rubbed extremities and very lightly chipped corners and spine ends, a few cover spots, sound binding, lightly written pencil note at top of one text page, no other markings. Soft Cover. Good. Squared 8vo.

Original Verses are by E. Nisbet and Caris Brooke. Illustrations are by Mary E. Butler, Giacomelli, H. Bannermann, H. Whatley, Robert Ellice Mack, W.G. Addison, A.M. Clausen, G.H. Thompson, A. Wilde Parsons, Julius Luz and George Clausen. Produced and Printed by Ernest Nister of Nuremberg. 32 pp of poems relating to summer with beautiful illustrations on every page. Poetry by Nesbit, Matthew Arnold, Byron, Keats, Browning, Ben Jonson, Runeberg, Burns, Shakespeare etc. Text clean except for patch of foxing on centre of centre page. Bound in illustrated paper coversheld in position with yellow ribbon. Vignette of charming rural scene on front cover and strand of honeysuckle on rear cover. All edge gilt. Spine rubbed and splitting at bottom. Contents loosening from covers. Margins of covers browned but illustrations bright. Corners of boards lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG-.