Poetry of the year
Subtitle: or, Pastorals from our poets : illustrative of the seasons
By: with chromo-lithographs from drawings by Birket Foster, ... Harrison Weir, L. E. Barker, T. Creswick, ... E. V. B., J. Wolf, David Cox, etc. etc.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899; Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Creswick, Thomas, 1811-1869; E. V. B. 1825-1916; Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899; Weigall, Charles Harvey, 1794-1877; Duncan, Edward, 1804-1882; Brooks, Vincent; Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911; Buckman, Edwin, 1841-1930; J. and W. Rider
Publisher: Charles Griffin and Company
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 116
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Seasons in literature.; Seasons -- Poetry.
Genres: Specimens.; Poetry.
Other titles: Pastorals from our poets :; Poetry of the year :; Poetry of the year :
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Edited by Joseph Cundall.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

T.p. printed in red and black.

Added chromolithographed t.p. with imprint: "Vincent Brooks, London" and signature: "AW" [i.e. Albert Henry Warren].

Plate and added t.p. printed within red rule border.

Includes works by Thomson, Spenser, Cowper, Burns, Longfellow, Houseman, Bloomfield, Coleridge, Bryant, Keats, Wordsworth, Montgomery and others.

Other artists include C. H. Weigall, H. Lejeune, C. Davidson, W. Hemsley, E. Duncan, William Lee and C. Branthwaite.

Illustrations chromolithographed on separated pieces of paper and pasted down within the text, with the name of the artist and either the name "Edwin Buckman" or "James W. Lewis" printed below.

McLean, Ruari.  Victorian publishers' book-bindings, p. 107.

MASS copy: Bound in green sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind, with a central sunken oval panel on the upper and lower covers.  Each sunken panel set with a different paper onlay chromolithographed with an illustration of flowers and/or fruit.  Spine with imprint: "C. Griffin & Co.".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With bookseller's label: "D. H. Wilson.  Bookseller and Binder, 70 [Gret?] St.  Newcastle on Tyne."  Binding possibly designed by Albert Henry Warren.  Cf. McLean, p. 107.