Golden thoughts from golden fountains
Subtitle: arranged in fifty-two divisions
By: illustrations by eminent artists ; engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
Contributors: Houghton, Arthur Boyd, 1836-1875.; Dalziel, Edward, 1817-1905.; Dalziel, Thomas Bolton Gilchrist Septimus, 1823-1906.; Lawson, John, fl. 1865-1909.; Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899.; Burton, William Paton, 1828-1883.; Small, William, 1843-1929.; Watson, John Dawson, 1832-1892.; Pinwell, George John, 1842-1875.; North, John William, 1842-1924.; Ralston, William, 1841-1911; Dalziel Brothers.; Camden Press; Burn & Co.
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Company; Scribner, Welford, and Co.
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; English poetry.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Golden thoughts from golden fountains :
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

Includes the writings of "Jeremy Taylor, Bishop Hall, Richard Baxter, Bishop Butler and ... poetry ... from old Authors, [such] as George Herbert, Giles Fletcher, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Tussler, George Wither, Sir Henry Wotton, and others ... "--P. v.

Includes works by Christina G. Rossetti, James Montgomery, William Cowper, Adelaide A. Procter, Bishop Heber, Dora Greenwell, Oliver Goldsmith, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Felicia Hemans, Rev. J. Keble, L. E. Landon, William Wordsworth, Countess of Pembroke, Robert Herrick and others.

Illustrations are by A. B. Houghton, E. Dalziel, T. Dalziel, J. Lawson, J. Wolf, W. P. Burton, W. Small, J. D. Watson, C. Simms, G. J. Pinwell and J. W. North.

"Initial letters and ornamental designs by P. Hundley"--P. xvi.

Title page and borders and captions of plates printed in gold. Text within ornamental borders.

Rectos of plates bound at pp. 32, 106, 150, 190, 244 bear verse corresponding to subject matter of illustration.

"To the many Authors who have kindly granted the use of extracts from their works, we tender our very best thanks; also to the several Publishers who have liberally permitted the insertion of copyright poems, particularly Messrs. Longman and Co., Messrs. A. Strahan and Co., and Messrs. Macmillan and Co.  Should any piece have been inadvertently inserted without permission obtained, through ignorance of the existence of copyright, or of the Author's address, the Editor hopes that the oversight may be pardoned; to those Authors also best thanks are most gratefully tendered."--Preface.

According to Gleeson White, the first edition of this title was printed in sepia and later editions were printed in black.  Cf. White, Gleeson. English illustration, 1970.

White, Gleeson.  English illustration : the sixties, p. 134.

MASS copy 1: Bound in red pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and black on the upper cover and spine, and blocked in blind on the lower cover. Spine with imprint: "F. Warne & Co.".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Includes binder's ticket: "Burn & Co.". Includes bookseller's ticket: "Jarrold & Sons, Norwich".

MASS copy 2: Bound in brown patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Cloth and blocking in gold printed with green decorative pattern.  Covers with signature: "WR" [possibly William Ralston, Cf. Gregory V. Jones and Jane E. Brown. "Victorian binding designer WR" in The Book Collector, Summer 2003].  Spine with imprint: "F. Warne & Co.".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With dark green painted endpapers.  With bookplate: "Ex Libris Percival F. Hinton".  A different issue than copy 1, with the text printed in sepia rather than black, plates with the addition of guard sheets, lacking a signature mark on p. 105 and with p. xiv misnumbered "x".