The harvest of a quiet eye
Subtitle: leisure thoughts for busy lives
By: by the author of "My study chair," "Musings," etc. ; with numerous illustrations by Noel Humphreys, Harrison Weir, Wimperis, Pritchett, Miss Edwards, and other eminent artists.
Contributors: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879.; Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906.; Wimperis, Edmund Morrison, 1835-1900.; Pritchett, R. T. 1828-1907.; Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900.; Measom, Allen, fl. 1870-1871.; Measom, William Frederick, fl. 1840s-1876.; Cheshire, William, fl. 1862-1901.; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903.; Dickes, William, 1815-1892.; Skelton, Percival.; Burt, Robert K. (printer); Westleys & Co.; Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)
Edition: Sixth thousand.
Publisher: Religious Tract Society
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Christian life.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Leisure thoughts for busy lives; Harvest of a quiet eye :
Notes: Authorship taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Date based on form of printer's name and inscription in Massey Library copy.  Cf. Brown, Philip A. H.  London publishers and printers, 1982

T.p. printed within double black rule border.

Wood-engraved plates included in pagination.  Most are unsigned.  Two are signed "W. Thomas" [i.e. W. L. Thomas?].  One is signed "A. Measom" and another "AM".

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  A few are signed "W. Thomas".  One is signed: "W. Measom Del + Sc.".  Other signatures include: "W. Cheshire", "Whimper Sc" [i.e. J. W. Whimper?], "W. Dickes" and "P. Skelton".

With the same wood-engraved illustrations (with some alterations) and similar setting of type as used in the "Ninth Thousand" edition of this title published [between 1872 and 1874] by The Religious Tract Society.  See McLean D 1132.

With most of the same wood-engraved illustrations (with some alterations) and similar setting of type as used in the "Twelfth Thousand" edition of this title published [between 1872 and 1876] by The Religious Tract Society.  See McLean D 1133.

With most of the same wood-engraved illustrations (with some alterations) and similar setting of type (except lacking some additional text) as used in another edition of this title published [between 1878 and 1879] by The Religious Tract Society. See McLean D 1134.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [2-5] at end.

Includes wood-engraved illustrated and decorative initials.

MASS copy: Bound in green pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean D 1132 and McLean D 1133.  Upper cover blocked in gold with illustration replicated from the text.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Westleys & Co.  London".  With bookseller's label: "C. H. Loveday, Bookseller, Printer, Bookbinder, & Stationer,  22, South Street,  Worthing.".  With ownership inscription dated April 1870: "H. J. Deanett".  With ownership inscription: "Arthur B. Taylor  Addiscombe Church".