304pp. Green cloth-covered boards with gilt decoration on front panel, blind decorations on verso, and gilt lettering on spine. All edges gilt. 12mo. Cloth moderately rubbed on corners and around spine, a few mild marks. Endpapers a little spotted, with a previous owner's name neatly written on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
A handsome volume containing a selection of English, Scotch and Irish verse designed to appeal to younger readers, including poems by William Black, Robert Southey, Tennyson, Newbolt, Yeats, Kingsley, Coleridge and many others.