Evenings at Derley Manor
Subtitle: pencilings and sketches of the English poets and their favourite scenes.
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Poets, English.
Notes: Publisher's advertisements on p. [3-4] at beginning.

T.p. and text printed within double rule border.

Preliminary wood-engraved plate, printed on glossy white paper, is hand-coloured and with decorative border printed in gold.  Plate is unsigned and without imprint.

The present volume comprises, in its poetical selections, the beauty, the pathos, the keen satiric wit, and the humourous pleasantry of England's best Poets, with sketches and pencilings of their character and lives ... "--Preface.

With much of the same text and setting of type for the body of text as that used in "Evenings with the poets" published in 1860 by T. Nelson and Sons.  See McLean D 0377.  Probably printed from stereotype plates.

MASS copy: Bound in dark blue and light blue horizontal striped diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With ownership label: "Burton.".  With ownership inscription: "Fanny Burton".