Rhymes and roundelayes
Subtitle: in praise of a country life
By: adorned with many pictures.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895.; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899; Duncan, Edward, 1804-1882; Dodgson, G. 1811-1880; Goodall, Walter, 1830-1889; Absolon, John, 1815-1895; Hulme, Frederick William, 1816-1884; Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Ansdell, Richard, 1815-1885; Goodall, Edward Angelo, 1819-1908; Read, Samuel, 1815-1883; Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904; Harral, Horace; Bolton, Thomas, fl. 1851-1893; Smith, John Orrin, 1799-1843.; Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903; Greenaway, John, 1816-1890; Wright, W., fl. 1846-1857; Macquoid, Thomas Robert, 1820-1912; Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879; Richard Clay (Firm); Leighton, Son and Hodge
Publisher: David Bogue
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens; Country life -- Poetry.
Genres: Specimens; Poetry.
Other titles: Rhymes and roundelays.
Notes: Edited by Joseph Cundall.  Cf. McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.

Includes works by Beattie, Thomson, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Tennyson, Shelley, Keats, Goldsmith, Longfellow, Cowper, Bryant, Bloomfield, Montgomery and others.

Illustrations by Birket Foster, Edward Duncan, George Dodgson, Walter Goodall, John Absolon, F. W. Hulme, Harrison Weir, Richard Ansdell, Edward Goodall, Samuel Read, Frederick Tayler.

Illustrations engraved by Evans, Green, Cooper, Harral, Bolton, Smith [i.e. John Orrin Smith?], Whymper, Greenaway and Wright.

"The Ornamental Headings drawn by Thomas MacQuoid and Noel Humphreys: The Tail-pieces by Jane E. Hay."--List of Illustrations.

Most of the same illustrations were also used in a "Second Edition" published in 1857 by David Bogue and with Joseph Cundall's monogram on t.p. verso.  See McLean O 0520.

Most of the same illustrations were also used in another "Second Edition" of this title published in 1858 by George Routledge & Co; and, in a "New Edition" published in 1862 by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge.  See McLean O 0520.1 and McLean O 0521.

Several illustrations were also used in an 1875 edition of this title published by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean O 0522.

McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, p. 112, 150.

White, Gleeson.  English illustration : the sixties, p. 103.

MASS copy: Bound in bright green morocco-grain cloth, embossed and blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean O 0520, McLean O 0520.1 and McLean O 0521.  With a central sunken oval panel on the upper cover blocked in gold with the title.  Floral design on upper cover blocked in gold over embossing, and the same design blocked in blind on the lower cover.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With binder's ticket: "Leighton  Son &  Hodge.  Shoe Lane  London.".  With later bookplate: "Ex Libris  Fianach Jardine".