The Comic Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems of Wit and Humour by Living Writers

Undated (circa 1900s). xvi, 400pp. Brown cloth-covered boards; designs on boards and spine, black titles on gilt labels on front and spine; all edges gilt; cream endpapers; all pages bordered in red; some black and white engravings (inc. tissue-guarded frontispiece). 12mo. Slightly sun-faded spine, lightly rubbed corners and spine ends. Prelims starting to fox and tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Illustrated edition selected and arranged, with notes, by the editor. Contributors among the Brits are Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, Austin Dobson, William S. Gilbert, Arthur & Frederick Locker, Lord Lytton, George Meredith, Alfred Tennyson; and among the Americans: Bret Harte, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell etc.