Original publisher's dark green cloth binding with gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. All edges gilt. 5" x 7 1/2." Pages [i]-xxxi. [1]-236, complete. 130 black-and-white illustrations, complete. Former owner's bookplate tipped in on front pastedown: "Edith E. King-Fisher." Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Binding is tight. Corners slightly bumped; lower-left corner of back cover has a minuscule portion of cloth that is chipped. Faint marks on a few pages. A Fine copy. A collection of humorous poems by acclaimed English poet and humorist Thomas Hood (1799-1845). Alfred Ainger (1837-1904) was an English biographer and literary critic. Charles Edmund Brock (1870-1938) of Cambridge was an English painter and book illustrator. He signed most of his work as "C. E. Brock." Not to be confused with Charles Edmund Brock (1881?-1964) of London, an English portrait painter who painted members of English Royalty and the aristocracy.

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Title

Humorous Poems

Publisher

Macmillan and Co., London, England

Publication Date

1893

Binding

Hardcover

Illustrator

Brock, Charles E.

Edition

1st Edition Thus

Condition

Fine

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