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Gems of literature, and elegant extracts
Gems of literature, elegant, rare, & suggestive
Embossed cloth bindings-Specimens-Scotland.
viii, 147 pages, 1 unnumbered (blank) page : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 22 cm
Title and each page of text enclosed in simple border.
"Gems of literature" was originally published in 1866, and "Elegant extracts" in 1872. An edition containing both volumes was issued approximately 1890. The present volume apparently contains only "Gems of literature."
Illustrations engraved by Robert Paterson, J.M. Corner, William Cheshire, Williamson and others. Some illustrations signed "NP" [i.e. Noel Paton]; two are signed "JLawson."
Includes works by Carlyle, Wordsworth, Johnson, Byron, Pope, Scott, Shelley, Burns, Longfellow, Milton, Spenser, Keats and others.
Handwritten note in pencil on front paste-down: "This edition is not the same as the 1866 edn. which was almost without artistic merit. This had two plates each by John Lawson and N.P. (Noel Paton?). Interesting binding of moiré ribbed cloth."
White, Gleeson. English Illustration, page 127
Reid, Forrest. Illustrators of the eighteen sixties, page 254