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,
Dalziels 354, Reid 7 & 196 ("the book of 1865"), Ray 200,
Wolff 7793, de Beaumont 127, Goldman 57 (see also pp.126 &
128). (Inv. #622) C$1,000
And, the 1st US
Expanded Edition
Alcott, Louisa Mae, Jean Ingelow, et. al., THE HORN OF PLENTY
OF HOME POEMS AND HOME PICTURES (Boston, William F. Gill & Co.,
1876 [1875]). First expanded US edition of Home Thoughts and
Home Scenes, 21 x 16.5cm (8vo), in publisher's saddle brown cloth
w/elaborate gilt & black decorations & title to fr. cover &
spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g., tissue-guarded frontis engraving, 192
pp. w/35 full-page wood engravings by the Dalziels after Arthur Boyd
Houghton, numerous wood engravings by F. Jeungling etc. after other
artists, & Preface by Sophie May. Binding Fine; contents Very
Good (occas. foxing). See Goldman 57. (Inv. #549) C$150
