LEGENDS AND LYRICS, With and Introduction by Charles Dickens.

A New Edition. Illustrated throughout with engravings by Harral from the art of Dobson, Palmer, John Tenniel, Thomas. Fröhlich, Millais, DuMaurier, Burton, Watson, Keene, Carrick, Edwards and Morton. Large 8vo, beautifully bound in full green morocco, the upper and lower covers emblazoned with full gilt tooling comprised of a series of elaborately tooled and rolled gilt panels, corner tooled decorations, floral designs gilt, fillet border lines gilt, all enclosing a large central gilt panel with floral devices at each edge, the spine with raised bands, the compartments of the spine multi-ruled in gilt and with central gilt ornamental tooling, one compartment lettered in gilt, all edges gilt, marbled end-leaves, gilt ruled turnovers. [xxiv], 330 pp. A very fine copy indeed, the binding and text-block and illustrations all beautifully preserved and in excellent condition. WITH INTRODUCTION BY CHARLES DICKENS. A book reprinted many times through the years Dickens praised the author's poetry for its beauty and sensitivity and celebrated the fact that Ms. Procter was well versed in the classics and in reading, having consumed over the course of her life a prodigious amount of literature. Dickens considered her poetry to be filled with humour and cheerfulness. He considered that she had an unusual 'vivacity and that she was unconstrained and unaffected about her productions as she was generous with her pecuniary results.'.…