Home Thoughts and Home Scenes

Ingelow, Jean, et. al., and Arthur Boyd Houghton (illus.), HOME THOUGHTS AND HOME SCENES IN ORIGINAL POEMS ... AND PICTURES (London: Routledge Warne & Routledge, 1865).  First edition, 25 x 20cm [4to], in publisher's dark green sand-grain cloth w/elaborate gilt & embossed decorations & title to covers & spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g., lt. chocolate eps., [i-x], 1-35 (plates) + I-XXXV (text) +[70 blank versos] cardstock pp., w/35 wood engravings by the Dalziels after A.B. Houghton.  "Dalziel's Gift Book for 1865," printed at the Camden Press, London.  Binding Very Good (extremities moderately bumped & worn); contents Very Good (prelims & final leaf a bit foxed w/occas. lt. spotting elsewhere).  White 126 ("absolutely essential to any representative collection of the period") & 165, Reid 7 & 196 ("the book of 1865"), Ray 200, de Beaumont 127, Goldman 57 (see also pp.126 & 128).  (Inv. #622)  C$1,400 Home Page