A Victorian Compendium in Pretty Binding : Favourite English Poems and Poets (1870) Manuscripts front decorated with gilt vingette

front decorated with gilt vingette  and title in gilt 19th century lettering

(205 x 140 mm) pp

Some minor creasing along spine of front cover

Bound in publisher's cloth binding (grey buckram) with iconic blue spiderweb design

A Victorian Compendium in Pretty Binding : Favourite English Poems and Poets (1870) Manuscripts front decorated with gilt vingetteFavourite English Poems and Poets. New and Improved Edition. London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1870. (155 x 225 mm) pp. xx, 672. Illustrated with three hundred and twenty engravings on wood from drawings by eminent artists. Ownership inscription along half title, James Allan Thomas from Mr. Mather? July 1871. Red publishers cloth binding with gilt decoration. Appears to have historic rebacking. Gilt for edges. MB201