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; Prout, John Skinner, 1806-1876.; Read, Samuel, 1815-1883; Tayler, Frederick, 1802-1889; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Green, W. T., fl. 1837-1872; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904; Thomas, William Luson, 1830-1900; 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
Edition: Second Edition.
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: With monogram "JC" [i.e. Joseph Cundall] on t.p. verso.

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, Thomas MacQuoid, Edward Duncan, George Dodgson, Noel Humphreys, Walter Goodall, John Absolon, F. W. Hulme, Harrison Weir, Richard Ansdell, Edward Goodall, J. S. Prout, Samuel Read, Frederick Tayler.

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

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

Most of the illustrations are the same as those used in another edition of this title published in 1857 by David Bogue. See McLean O 519.

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

Sheets, except for title page, are the same as another "Second Edition" of this title published in 1858 by George Routledge & Co.  See McLean O 0520.1.

Sheets, except for title page, are also the same as a "New Edition" of this title published in 1862 by Routledge, Warne & Routledge.  See McLean O 0521.

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

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

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco-grain cloth, embossed and blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean O 0519, 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.".