A Victorian Compendium in Pretty Binding : Favourite English Poems and Poets (1870) Manuscripts from inside a compound

from inside a compound

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

(205 x 140 mm) pp

requires a bit more study to access the older material

in full leather

A Victorian Compendium in Pretty Binding : Favourite English Poems and Poets (1870) Manuscripts from inside a compoundFavourite 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