The Book of Gems: From the Poets and Artists of Great Britain (2 volume set)

S C Hall

 London : G. Bell & Sons, 1874

2 volume set. 23 cm. Bound in contemporary red moroccan leather, heavily decorated in gold. Gilt dentelle. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to leather at extremities, Spine tail of first volume slightly chipped. Marbled end pages.  Clean, unmarked pages.  Biographical sketches of the poets. Facsimile autographs of the poets at the end of each volume. T.p. in red and black. Includes: [v. 2] The seventeenth and eighteenth century : Swift to Burns --[v. 3] The eighteenth and nineteenth century : Wordsworth to Tennyson.