A new library of poetry and song
New York: Fords, Howard, & Hulbert, [1877]. 2 volumes, 4to, pp. lxxvii, [5], 430; [2], 431-950; steel engraved frontispieces, extensively illustrated with portraits, wood engravings, ornamental silhouettes, and facsimiles; title pages printed in red and black; original full dark brown morocco decorated in blind and gilt, gilt spines in 6 compartments, a.e.g.; edges rubbed, preliminaries foxed, else a very good, sound set. Poets most extensively represented in this international collection include Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Leigh Hunt, Ben Jonson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Milton, Thomas Moore, Alexander Pope, Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Wordsworth, and, naturally, the editor, William Cullen Bryant. Item #45427
Price: $125.00
