Early English poems
Subtitle: Chaucer to Pope
By: chiefly unabridged ; illustrated with upwards of one hundred engravings on wood, from drawings by eminent artists.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895.; Thomas, George Housman, 1824-1868.; Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823-1871.; Portch, Julian, d. 1865.; Wimperis, Edmund Morrison, 1835-1900.; Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897.; Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888.; Nash, Joseph, 1808-1878.; Creswick, Thomas, 1811-1869; Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899.; Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903.; Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889.; Redgrave, Richard, 1804-1888.; Pickersgill, Frederick Richard, 1820-1900.; Stonhouse, Charles, 1833-1865.; Cope, Charles West, 1811-1890.; Townsend, Henry James, 1810-1890.; Madot, A. M. d. 1864.; Duncan, Edward, 1804-1882.; Warren, Henry, 1794-1879.; E. V. B. 1825-1916.; Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900.; Palmer, William James fl. 1858-1896.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Harral, Horace.; Linton, W. J. 1812-1897.; Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872.; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904.; Bolton, Thomas, fl. 1851-1893.; Warren, Albert Henry, 1830-1911.; Richard Clay (Firm); Bone & Son
Publisher: Sampson Low, Son & Co.
Published: 1863
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Monogram of Joseph Cundall on t.p. verso.

Printer's device printed on half-title verso.

Wood-engraved illustrations are by George Thomas, F. W. Keyl, Julian Portch, E. M. Wimperis, Birket Foster, John Gilbert, Felix Darley, J. H. Hill, Joseph Nash, T. Creswick, J. Wolf, J. C. Horsley, Frederick Tayler, R. Redgrave, F. Pickersgill, C. Stonhouse, C. W. Cope, H. J. Townsend, M. A. Madot, E. Duncan, H. Warren and E. V. B.

Illustrations are engraved by W. L. Thomas, W. J. Palmer, E. Evans, H. Harral, W. J. Linton, W. T. Green, J. Cooper and T. Bolton.

With wood-engraved decorative tail-pieces.

MASS copy 1: Bound in purple pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Spine signed "AW" [i.e. Albert H. Warren].  With binder's ticket: "Bone & Son, 76 Fleet St., London".

MASS copy 2-3: Bound in red morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold on both covers, in the same design as copy 1, with the same spine design signed "AW".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. Copy 2 with the bookplate of Lewis Balfour, Merchant, Calcutta.

MASS copy 4: Bound in brown morocco blocked in gold in the same design and with the same signature as copies 1-3.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  Board turn-ins blocked in gold.  With pale pastel yellow glazed endpapers.  With bookplate: "Ex Libris  F. E. Dinshaw".  With bookplate: "Ex Libris  Percival F. Hinton".