The poets' offering for 1850
By: edited by Sarah Josepha Hale.
Contributors: Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell, 1788-1879; Sinclair, Thomas S., ca. 1805-1881; Fagan, J.; Sartain, John, 1808-1897; T.K. & P.G. Collins (Firm)
Publisher: Grigg, Elliot & Co.
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 576
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Authors, American -- Quotations.; Authors, English -- Quotations.
Genres: Specimens.; Quotations.
Notes: Editor's preface dated 1849.

Added chromolithographed t.p. with imprint: "Devereux, del.  Pr. in Colors by T. Sinclair, Phila.".

"Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by Grigg, Elliot & Co., in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania"--T.p. verso.

"Stereotyped by J. Fagan."--T.p. verso.

Includes "List of Authors quoted in this work": p. iv.

Consists of quotations from a great number of British and American authors, organized within different subjects and virtues.

Mezzotint plates and engraved portrait include etching.

Preliminary engraved portrait with imprints "Read" and "Pease".

Plates with the imprint as engraved by J. Sartain after the artists E. G. Leutze, W. Drummond, T. A. Woolnoth, Herbert, G. A. Baker, Henry Peters Gray, P. F. Poole, E. Landseer, Regnier, D. Maclise and Joshua Cristall.

MASS copy:  Bound in black morocco blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With an illustration of a woman holding a harp within a decorative oval centrepiece blocked in gold on the upper and lower covers.  With ownership inscription dated 1850.