The poetry of nature
Subtitle: selected and illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Contributors: 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); Burn & Co.
Publisher: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston
Published: 1868
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Nature -- Poetry.
Genres: Specimens.; Poetry.
Notes: Preliminary wood-engraved plate included in pagination.

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

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

Includes wood-engraved decorative head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials.

With the same wood-engraved illustrations as used in another edition of this title published in 1861 by Sampson Low, Son, and Co.  See McLean O 0495 and McLean O 0496.

With the same 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.

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

MASS copy: Bound in green calico cloth blocked in gold and blind.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With dark blue-green painted endpapers.  With remnants of binder's ticket: "Bound by Burn. 37 & 38 Kirby St.".