Festival of Song: A Series of Evenings With the Poets

New York: Bunce & Huntington, 1866. 1st Edition. Full-Leather. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo., xiv, 376pp, Beautiful First Edition, bound in publisher's pebbled brown leather. Boards with embossed designs and borders with gilt stamped titles on both front and back. Spine with five raised bands with compartment decoration similar to boards. Titles in gilt in second compartment. Gilt board edges and gilt decorated turn-ins. a.e.g. Marbled end-papers. 73 "...pictures, by memebers of the national Academy of Design. Engraved by Bobbett & Hooper". Square, tight and clean throughout with no foxing or interior blemishes. Page edges only just starting to tone but barely. Gentle rubbing to spine ends and tips a few quite minor scuffs to boards. Contemporary ownership signatures on front paste-down and end-paper. One in the year of publication and the other in 1874. Very well-preserved. Anthology of excerpts from poems from well-known, and not so well-known pets through the ages, as well as accompanying commentary. A simply gorgeous collectable copy.