The poetry of nature
Subtitle: selected and illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Contributors: Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895; Greenaway, John, 1816-1890; Measom, William Frederick, fl. 1840s-1876; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904; Palmer, William James fl. 1858-1896; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 (printer); Bone & Son
Publisher: Sampson Low, Son, and Co.
Published: 1861
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Nature -- Poetry.
Genres: Specimens.; Poetry.
Other titles: Poetry of nature :
Notes: Preliminary plate included in pagination.

Includes works by W. C. Bryant, Cowper, Coleridge, Shelley, Wordsworth, Harrison Weir, Barry Cornwall, Montgomery and others.

Illustrations engraved by J. Greenaway, Edmund Evans, W. Measom, J. Cooper, R. N. Woods, W. J. Palmer and H. Morgan.

Edited by Joseph Cundall.  Cf. Jackson, John.  A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical, 1861, p. 555.

With the same setting of type and wood-engraved illustrations as used in another 1861 edition of this title published in New York by D. Appleton & Co.  See McLean O 0495.1.

With the same wood-engraved illustrations as used in an 1868 edition of this title published by Sampson Low, Son, & Marston.  See McLean D 1179.

MASS copy 1: Bound in purple fine straight-grain morocco cloth embossed and blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold.  With a central sunken rectangular panel on the upper and lower covers, set with a white paper onlay with the titling and a decorative border blocked in gold.  Design is the same as that used on McLean O 0495.1.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Bone & Son,  76, Fleet St.  London.".

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