Rhymes and roundelayes
Subtitle: in praise of a country life
By: adorned with many pictures.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895.; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899; Duncan, Edward, 1804-1882; Dodgson, G. 1811-1880; Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879; Goodall, Walter, 1830-1889; Absolon, John, 1815-1895; Hulme, Frederick William, 1816-1884; Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Ansdell, Richard, 1815-1885; Goodall, Edward Angelo, 1819-1908; Prout, John Skinner, 1806-1876.; Read, Samuel, 1815-1883; Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904; Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900; Harral, Horace; Bolton, Thomas, fl. 1851-1893; Smith, John Orrin, 1799-1843.; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903; Greenaway, John, 1816-1890; Wright, W., fl. 1846-1857; Macquoid, Thomas Robert, 1820-1912; Richard Clay (Firm)
Edition: Second Edition.
Publisher: George Routledge & Co.
Published: 1858
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens; Country life -- Poetry.
Genres: Specimens; Poetry.
Other titles: Rhymes and roundelays.
Notes: With monogram "JC" [i.e. Joseph Cundall] on t.p. verso.

Edited by Joseph Cundall.  Cf. McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.

Includes works by Beattie, Thomson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Shelley, Keats, Goldsmith, Longfellow, Cowper, Bryant, Bloomfield, Montgomery and others.

Illustrations by Birket Foster, Thomas MacQuoid, Edward Duncan, George Dodgson, Noel Humphreys, Walter Goodall, John Absolon, F. W. Hulme, Harrison Weir, Richard Ansdell, Edward Goodall, J. S. Prout, Samuel Read, Frederick Tayler.

Illustrations engraved by Evans, Green, Cooper, W. Thomas, Harral, Bolton, Smith [i.e. John Orrin Smith?], Whymper, Greenaway, Wall and Wright.

"The Ornamental Initial Letters drawn by Thomas MacQuoid. The Tail-pieces by Jane E. Hay."--List of Illustrations.

Most of the illustrations were also used in an edition of this title published in 1857 by David Bogue. See McLean O 0519.

Illustrations were also used in an edition of this title published in 1875 by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean O 0522.

Sheets, except for title page, are the same as another "Second Edition" of this title published in 1857 by David Bogue.  See McLean O 0520.

Sheets, except for title page, are also the same as a "New Edition" of this title published in 1862 by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge.  See McLean O 0521.

McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, p. 112, 150.

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco-grain cloth embossed and blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean O 0519, McLean O 0520 and McLean O 0521, but with the lower cover also blocked in gold.  With a central sunken oval panel on the upper and lower cover blocked in gold with the title.  Floral design on upper and lower cover blocked in gold over embossing.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With brown painted endpapers.