POETRY OF THE YEAR : Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons. With Twenty Two Coloured Illustrations from Drawings By Eminent Artists
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
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Penzance, Cornwall, United Kingdom
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About This Item
186 Fleet St. London: George Bell, 1854. Decorative Cloth. Good+. Delightful combination of fine Verse with fine Paintings. Complete with 22 Colour Plates, protected by thin paper guards. A very early example of Chromolithographs reproducing Paintings. Artists include Birket Foster, Harrison Weir and David Cox. Poets include Keats, Wordsworth, Cowper & Tennyson. Contemporary Red Cloth cover with fine indented Gilt Floral Decoration and title to front (same Decoration blind stamped on the back. All page edges Gilt. 10 1/2" Tall, 102 pages. 770g. Cloth Backstrip missing from spine and all pages, Plates and Guards loose, but Complete. Nice Gift inscription on ffep dated 1857. No other inscriptions. Pages and Plates in very nice, clean condition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
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- Bookseller
- Cornish Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012909
- Title
- POETRY OF THE YEAR : Passages from the Poets Descriptive of the Seasons. With Twenty Two Coloured Illustrations from Drawings By Eminent Artists
- Format/Binding
- Decorative Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Bell
- Place of Publication
- 186 Fleet St. London
- Date Published
- 1854
- Keywords
- POETRY/ANTHOLOGIES/ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS/ILLUSTRATED BOOKS/CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS
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About the Seller
Cornish Books
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Penzance, Cornwall
About Cornish Books
Online Bookseller since 2008, in Penzance, Cornwall.We are a small family business and offer a personal service.Always in stock is a good selection of Cornish Interest Books.
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