Henry Coppee Introduction (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. ---------Navy cloth covers, gilt letters and gilt and black silhouette on cover, gilt top pages, book is 8" tall. 152 pages, with frontispiece and 34 illustrations, plus the preface and introduction---------VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight solid binding and hinges, clean text- - - clean- - - no writing or underlining- - no dust jacket.…

Full-Leather. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Poetry. Reprint edition, copyright 1858. Decorated leather covers scuffed, corners and spine ends worn to the boards, edges worn to the turn-ins. Gift inscriptions by the publisher inked in three times on the endpapers, otherwise the interior is clean and tight, pages tanned, all edges gilt. Large book, additional postage required for international orders. Includes poetry by Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, Wordsworth, Scott, Southey, Byron, Shelley, Poe, and many others of the time.…

Condition: Good. 488 pages. Hardcover. "Richly Illustrated with one hundred and fifty steel engravings, executed in the finest style of the art, mostly from original designs by distinguished artists." Light blue, fancy textured endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Cover boards elaborately bound in leather with raised bands and gilt title and decoration on spine. Front cover has engraved decoration in black, with gilt title and design, back cover board has same design without gilt (see image). Boards have some chipping around the corners and edges (see images). Elaborately decorative first title page (see image). All edges gilt (quite bright). Hinge cracked at gutter in one place (second page??second page), binding remains tight, otherwise. Tanning to pages from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Some shadowing on a few pages due to previous owner's pressed flowers (now removed). This beautiful old volume was obviously meant to decorate someone's library, as well as provide some comfort at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Record # 369278.…

Half-Leather. Condition: Very Good. Fine leather binding. Introductory essay by Henry Coppee, LL.D. - President of the Lehigh University. From title page: "Richly illustrated with nearly one hundred & fifty steel engravings, executed in the finest style of the art, mostly from original designs by distinguished artists". Chromolithograph half-title page, brightly coloured in gold, red, green & bold black, complete with tissue guard. Includes frontispiece engraving. Contains classic poetry by classic masters of English verse such as Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith, Wiliam Cowper, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Thomas Moore, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Felicia Hemans, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Algernon Charles Swinburne, William C. Bryant, N.P. Willis, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar A. Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, & Henry Coppee, along with several others. Arranged in chronological order. Bound in contemporary half-leather & brown buckram, raised bands, gilt lettering & design to front board, gilt lettering & design in compartments to spine, all edges gilt, silk endpapers. Edges of covers slightly rubbed, light foxing to endpapers, mild offsetting from engravings, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid leatherbound copy. 488pp. Heavy large volume, extra shipping may be required. Uncommon title in fine binding. FL-7.…