Evenings with the poets and sketches of their favourite scenes
By: by the author of "Success in life," "Memorials of early genius," etc.
Contributors: Leighton, John, 1822-1912; Thomas Nelson & Sons
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Published: 1860
Place of publication: London; Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
Subjects: Poets, English.
Notes: T.p. and text printed within double black rule border.

Plates are unsigned "Nelson prints", i.e. pen-and-ink lithographs printed in a brownish purple ink with the ground and sky coloured by two wood blocks. For more on this process, see Gascoigne, Bamber. How to identify prints, 1986, p. 30-31.

Plates are with captions.

"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 at Derley Manor" published in 1849 by Thomas Nelson.  See McLean D 0376.  Probably printed from stereotype plates.

MASS copy: Bound in olive green bead-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Upper and lower cover blocked in gold with small circular vignette illustration showing the bust of Cowper.  Covers and spine with signature: "JL" [i.e. John Leighton].  With pale yellow glazed endpapers.  Lacking preliminary p. [3-6?].  Lacking p. 119-122.