Pictures from English literature
By: by John Francis Waller ... ; with twenty illustrations by J. C. Horsley, ...  E. M. Ward, ... W. F. Yeames, ...  Mrs. E. M. Ward, Fred Barnard, Robert Barnes, Hablot K. Browne, George Du Maurier, John Faed, S. L. Fildes, John Gilbert, Charles Green, Edward Hughes, F. Wilfrid Lawson, R. MacBeth, William Small, Marcus Stone, W. Cave Thomas, Edward Wagner, James D. Watson.
Contributors: Horsley, John Callcott, 1817-1903; Yeames, William Frederick, 1835-1918; Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896; Barnes, Robert, 1840-1895; Browne, Hablot Knight, 1815-1882; Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896; Faed, John, 1819-1902; Fildes, Luke, Sir, 1844-1927; Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897; Green, Charles, 1840-1898; Lawson, Francis Wilfred, 1842-1935; Small, William, 1843-1929; Stone, Marcus, 1840-1921; Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909; Cobb, Thomas, fl.1863-1878; Wentworth, Frederick, fl. 1865-1894; Pannemaker, Stéphane, 1847-1930; Sulman, T., fl. 1855-1900; Dalziel Brothers; Belle Sauvage Works
Publisher: Cassell, Petter and Galpin
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 163
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism.; Authors, English.; Gift books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrative head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials.

Publisher's advertisements on p. 1-4 at end printed in red and black within a red rule border.

Most wood-engraved plates are signed "Swain Sc".  Other signatures include T Cobb, F. Wentworth, Dalziel and Pannemaker.

"The Ornamental Title and Headings designed by Thomas Sulman."--Illustrations.

Includes works by Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Campbell, Lord Byron, Willam Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Alfred Tennyson.

MASS copy: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with decorative titling in orange, green, red, blue and white paper onlays in a design similar to ornamental t.p. within the text.  Spine with imprint: "Cassell, Petter & Galpin".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With dark green painted endpapers.