Pearls from the poets
Subtitle: specimens of the works of celebrated writers
By: selected, with biographical notes, by H. W. Dulcken ... ; with a preface by the Rev. Thomas Dale ...
Contributors: Dulcken, H. W. 1832-1894; Dale, Thomas, 1797-1870; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Kretschmer, Robert, 1818-1872; Leighton, John, 1822-1912; Belle Sauvage Works; Petter and Galpin; Burn & Co.
Publisher: Ward and Lock
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Publisher's device printed on t.p.

T.p. printed within thin black rule border; plate printed within thin double black rule border.

Wood-engraved plate includes caption.  Plate is signed "Edmund Evans Sc.".

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned.  Two are signed "R Kretschmer".

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrative initials.

Includes works by Goldsmith, W. C. Bryant, T. Moore, Wordsworth, Longfellow, C. Lamb, S. T. Coleridge, Edgar A. Poe, James Montgomery, Thomson, Tennyson, Keats, Pope, Cowper, Burns, Elizth. Barrett Browning, Sir Walter Scott, Rev. T. Dale and others.

Includes "Chronological index of the principal poets quoted in this volume, with some of their works.": p. [186]-188.

MASS copy: Bound in lavender pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With dark green painted endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Burn  37 & 38  Kirby St.".  With presentation inscription dated 1870.  With later ownership label: "Anthony David Estill".  Encased in a later red cloth-covered clamshell box with paper title label on spine.  Box with label: "Box by A. D. E.".