John Hookham Frere's National poems
Subtitle: I. King Arthur and his Round Table or The monks and the giants by William and Robert Whistlecraft : II. Athelstan's victory and other miscellaneous writings
By: edited and prefaced by Richard Herne Shepherd.
Contributors: Shepherd, Richard Herne, 1842-1895.; Cockerell, Sydney Carlyle, Sir, 1867-1962.; Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957.; Chiswick Press
Publisher: Basil Montagu Pickering
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Frere, John Hookham, -- 1769-1846.
Other titles: Miscellaneous writings of John Hookham Frere
Notes: Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Includes "Biographical Preface.": p. [vii]-xxxii.

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

MASS copy: Bound in marbled paper-covered boards.  Upper free endpaper with inscription signed by editor: "Only twenty-five copies of the entire volume, including the Preface, were struck off, on hand-made paper.  The book was superseded and never issued; arrangements having been entered into by the late W. Pickering with the Frere family on the eve of its publication for a complete edition of W. Hookham Frere's writings and Translations, which was issued in two handsome volumes, with a Memoir by Sir Bartle Frere in 1872, and in a smaller form in three volumes in 1874, with Index to the Memoir compiled by the Editor of the present volume.  R. H. S.".  With presentation inscription dated 1954 from Sydney Cockerell to Bruce Rogers.  With handwritten letter laid in from Sydney Cockerell to "My dear Rogers" dated 1954.