The poetry of nature
Subtitle: selected and illustrated by Harrison Weir.
Contributors: Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906; Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895; Greenaway, John, 1816-1890; Measom, William Frederick, fl. 1840s-1876; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904; Palmer, William James fl. 1858-1896; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 (printer)
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1861
Place of publication: [London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 111
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Nature -- Poetry.
Genres: Specimens.; Poetry.
Other titles: Poetry of nature :
Notes: Preliminary plate included in pagination.

Includes works by W. C. Bryant, Cowper, Coleridge, Shelley, Wordsworth, Harrison Weir, Barry Cornwall, Montgomery and others.

Illustrations engraved by J. Greenaway, Edmund Evans, W. Measom, J. Cooper, R. N. Woods, W. J. Palmer and H. Morgan.

Edited by Joseph Cundall.  Cf. Jackson, John.  A treatise on wood engraving, historical and practical, 1861, p. 555.

Possibly another issue of McLean O 495.  Without publisher's imprint on t.p.  Otherwise, sheets are identical to the 1861 edition published by Sampson Low, Son, and Co.

With the same wood-engraved illustrations as used in an 1868 edition of this title published by Sampson Low, Son, & Marston.  See McLean D 1179.

MASS copy 1: Bound in green morocco embossed and blocked in blind and gold in the same design as McLean O 495.  With a central sunken rectangular panel on the upper and lower covers, set with a white paper onlay with the titling and a decorative border blocked in gold.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With marbled endpapers.

MASS copy 2: Bound in green morocco embossed and blocked in blind and gold in the same design and with the same sunken rectangular panels and white paper onlays as copy 1.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With marbled endpapers.