treasury of literature and art
Subtitle: a selection from the best writers
By: with numerous illustrations by eminent artists.
Contributors: Paterson, Robert, fl. 1860-1899; Hay, George, 1831-1913; Bough, Samuel, 1822-1878; Ballantyne & Company
Series: Nimmo's elegant gift books
Publisher: William P. Nimmo
Published: 1872
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Added chromolithographed ill. t.p.

Wood-engraved plates included in pagination.

Text and plates printed within thin black rule border.

Includes works by Wordsworth, John Keats, Longfellow, Dickens, Byron, Burns, Moore, Montgomery, Goldsmith, Cowper, Walpole, Pope and others.

Most wood-engraved plates and all wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed "R Paterson Sc.".  Other signatures include "G. Hay", "Sam Bough" and "R. Pleitch".

MASS copy: Bound in green fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Spine with imprint: "W.P. Nimmo".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.