Leather bound
1867 · London
by Mackay, Charles
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1867. Leather bound. VG- (rear cover is not attached and front is loose, previous owner's name on ffep, pages are otherwise very clean.). Brown leather boards with gilt tooling, five raised bands on spine with gilt design, black title block with gilt lettering, all edge gilt, marble decorated end pages, iv, 602 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (wood engravings). Frontispiece and plates facing pages: 99, 136, 171, 192, 297, 315, 501. Selected and arranged by Charles Macksy, LL.D., editor of "Gems of English poetry" ; illustrated by J.E. Millais, Sir John Gilbert, A.R.A., and Birket Foster. Printed in double columns, Includes indexes: British poets; American poets: and First Lines.
(Inventory #: 178904)