From Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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AbeBooks Seller since May 18, 2007
About this Item
A delightful collection of poems with beautiful illustrations by the Junior Etching Club. A scarce work.An anthology of beautiful English poems by a variety of contemporary writers.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty-four plates.Collated, all plates are present. Bound without the front endpaper.Including 'War and Glory' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Brook' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'The Lovers' by Lord Byron, 'Hens and Chickens' by William Wordsworth, 'The Elm Tree' by Thomas Hood, 'The Oak of the Forest' by Robert Southey, 'Scene of the Plague' by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and more.The plates were contributed by the Junior Etching Club, with illustrators including J. Whistler, John Tenniel, J. E. Millais, and more.A reissue of the William Tegg edition, with lithographs. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with a dampstain to the tail of the front board. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Light marks to the cloth. Spine is a little discoloured. Hinges are starting but firm. Lacking the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with some scattered spots. Good. Seller Inventory # 921P4
Bibliographic Details
Title: Passages from Modern English Poets
Publisher: William Tegg, London
Publication Date: 1876
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Various
Condition: Good
Book Type: book
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