xviii, 524pp, with colour plate frontispiece and seven further colour plates, all by Honor C Appleton. In illustrated and decorated green cloth boards with gilt titles and extensive decorations, tipped in illustration on front panel. Boards a little rubbed and rounded at spine tips and extreme corners, remarkably bright and fresh. Front free endpaper absent, and old water damage affecting the base of the half-title page and frontispiece, (not affecting text or image), frontispiece rubbed along fore-edge, else internally neat, clean, and tight with just a hint of spotting on a few early and late pages. In its original dust jacket, with tipped on illustration matching that on the book (jacket is rubbed and lightly chipped at edges and folds, with minor loss at spine ends, short flat tear running from spine head along fold). Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. A really lovely, vintage volume of poetry and verse selected for younger readers, including works by Frank Dempster Sherman, Charles Kingsley, Marion St John Webb, Isaac Watts, Hilda Conkling, John Masefield, Walter Scott, Lord Tennyson, Lucy Larcom, Longfellow, William Cowper, Kipling, Browning, Keats, Chilman, Alice Meynell, Yeats, Lovelace, William Morris, Robert Burns, Matthew Arnold and many, many more.
Appleton, Honor C
Poetry, Verse, Vintage Books, Anthologies
