Sunlight and Shade: Being Poems and Pictures of Life and Nature
- Hardcover
- London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1884
London: Cassell & Company, Limited, 1884. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Second Edition. Hardcover. This gorgeous, golden, gilt-stamped tome is full to brimming with vintage verses and lush and romantic illustrations, all within a sunlit and swoon-worthy binding. Poets include Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Goddard, Fanny Forrester, John Francis Waller, Isabella Banks, and many more, their verses illustrated throughout by such artists as William Henry James Boot, Frank Dadd, Mary Ellen Edwards, Mary Lightbody Gow, and William Lionel Wyllie.
10 1/2" X 7 3/4". 192pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in golden brown cloth over boards, with elaborately decorated upper board and spine, with woman releasing a carrier pigeon, wise men, blossoming vines, and ribbons in gilt, green, and black, and title in black and gilt. All edges gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with slight lean to spine, faint scattered rubbing and soiling, and gentle bumping and rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine. Decorative floral endpapers. Faint pencilled scribbles to title page and occasional smudge or spot of soiling to pages throughout. Binding is firm and sound. A stunningly bound and abundantly illustrated Victorian-era celebration of life and nature in verse.
10 1/2" X 7 3/4". 192pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in golden brown cloth over boards, with elaborately decorated upper board and spine, with woman releasing a carrier pigeon, wise men, blossoming vines, and ribbons in gilt, green, and black, and title in black and gilt. All edges gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with slight lean to spine, faint scattered rubbing and soiling, and gentle bumping and rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine. Decorative floral endpapers. Faint pencilled scribbles to title page and occasional smudge or spot of soiling to pages throughout. Binding is firm and sound. A stunningly bound and abundantly illustrated Victorian-era celebration of life and nature in verse.
Details
Title
Sunlight and Shade: Being Poems and Pictures of Life and Nature
Binding
Hardcover
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Cassell & Company, Limited: London
Date
1884
Edition
Second Edition