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Wood-Side and Sea-Side. Illustrated by Pen and Pencil.
rif. 66090New York: D. Appleton and Company 1869. 4to. 22.5 x 15.5 cm. pp. 96. Bound in publisher's brown morocco front and back boards stamped in blind with gilt floral vignettes spine with raised bands all but one compartment containing a blind-stamped fleur de lys title in gilt rolled gilt inner-dentelles surround marbled endpapers all edges gilt. Consists of poems by Motherwell Howitt Blake Milton Tennyson. Stoddard Bennett Herrick Bryant Street Rogers Dickens Shelley Cornwall Smith Hölty Peabody May Milnes Wodsworth Landon Walton Cowper and Beaumont & Fletcher. 46 engraved illustrations of natural scenes by Dalziel Foster Hows Duncan Weir Harvey and Evans. Presentation inscription: 'Mamie and Charles. / From Sister Mary. / Christmas 1869.' Light wear to corners and hinges some very light foxing mostly limited to flyleaves and title-page. Generally very good. An anthology of poetry of sea and forest scenes in a pretty original binding. Each poem is accompanied by a complementary engraving. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1869. hardcover
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