poetry of nature
Subtitle: selected and illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Contributors: Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895; Greenaway, John, 1816-1890; Measom, William Frederick, fl. 1840s-1876; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904; Palmer, William James fl. 1858-1896; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 (printer); Bone & Son
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.
Published: 1861
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Nature -- Poetry.
Genres: Specimens.; Poetry.
Other titles: Poetry of nature :
Notes: Preliminary plate included in pagination.

Includes works by W. C. Bryant, Cowper, Coleridge, Shelley, Wordsworth, Harrison Weir, Barry Cornwall, Montgomery and others.

Illustrations engraved by J. Greenaway, Edmund Evans, W. Measom, J. Cooper, R. N. Woods, W. J. Palmer and H. Morgan.

Edited by Joseph Cundall.  Cf. Jackson, John.  A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical, 1861, p. 555.

With the same setting of type and wood-engraved illustrations as used in another 1861 edition of this title published in London by Sampson Low, Son, and Co.  See McLean O 0495 and McLean O 0496.

With the same wood-engraved illustrations as used in an 1868 edition of this title published by Sampson Low, Son, & Marston.  See McLean D 1179.

MASS copy: Bound in blue fine straight-grain morocco cloth embossed and blocked in blind and gold in the same design and with the same sunken panels and white paper onlays blocked in gold on the covers as McLean O 0495 and McLean O 0496.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With pale pastel yellow endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Bone & Son,  76, Fleet St.  London.".