Poetical Works Of Thomson Falconer And Blair -

London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1871. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 16mo. 448pp. Decorative brown cloth stamped in black and gilt, all edge gilt. Illustrated. Owner's stamp on front fly, top cloth edges nicked, spine a bit cocked, still a very good copy.

T Nelson Sons 1871. Wonderful binding, small octavo, decorated brown wooden boards with gilt lettering & gilt decorative rule between five raised bands to light brown leather spine, gilt decorative rule to pastedown edges, aeg, yellow eps with blue cloth hinges, illus title page with tissue guard, 448pp, illus, VG+ (two owners' names & addresses in ink to fep, third owner's name in ink to rear pastedown, tanning to tissue guards, some foxing)

Nelson,, 1871. 8vo., First Edition thus, with engraved and printed titles (original tissue guard present) and numerous engraved illustrations (a number full-page) in the text, some mild offsetting to endpapers; original pictorial terracotta cloth, upper board with elaborate multiple frame border in black enclosing title and oval cartouche with mounted coloured illustration, back gilt extra, lower board framed in blind, gilt edges, bevelled boards, a remarkably bright, clean copy in wholly unrestored period binding. With a coloured bookplate on front paste-down. A fine example of a mid-Victorian decorative cloth binding. A very scarce compilation.