Wayside Posies

North, John William, George John Pinwell, and Frederick Walker (illus.), WAYSIDE POSIES: ORIGINAL POEMS OF THE COUNTRY LIFE (London: George Routledge, 1867).  First (& only) edition, 25 x 19.5cm [4to], in publisher's maroon sand-grain cloth w/elaborate gilt & black decorations & title to covers & spine, w/white central panels to covers (all designed by Albert Warren), bevelled edges, a.e.g., cream ep.s w/binder's ticket (Leighton Son & Hodge) to rear pastedown, [i-xiv], 1-91 [+ 1-91 unpaginated versos], [1-4 publ. adverts] cardstock pp. w/42 wood engravings by the Dalziels after North (19), Pinwell (18), & Walker (5).  Printed at the Camden Press, London.  Binding Fair (rebacked retaining original ep.s, spine & edges of covers soiled & sunned, & ep.s a bit foxed); contents Good (lt. scattered foxing, & lt. tidemarks to fore-edges of some leaves [not affecting the plates]).  White 4 & 130 ("in the very front rank"), Reid passim, Ray 154, Colbeck 5, de Beaumont 395, Goldman passim.  (Inv. #495)  C$500 Home Page