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Millais, John Everett, John Tenniel, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, et. al. (illus.), PASSAGES
FROM MODERN ENGLISH POETS. ILLUSTRATED BY THE JUNIOR ETCHING CLUB
(London: William Tegg, n.d. [1876]). First edition thus, 28 x
21cm (large 4to), in publisher's scarlet sand-grain cloth w/gilt title
& embossed border designs to fr. cover (blind border design only to
rear), gilt decorations & title to spine, a.e.g., pale salmon ep.s,
[i-vi], [1-184] pp. (the 1st pp. of poetry & the plates are each
numbered 1-45) w/frontis & 46 designs printed on cardstock
illustrating poems by Byron, Coleridge, Tennyson, Wordsworth, et.
al. Originally "issued by Day & Son in 1862," for this
edition the "etchings [were] transferred to stone & printed as
lithographs" (White p.152). Binding Very Good (spine a bit
darkened, a few small stains to covers, corners sl. bumped & worn,
& rear hinge cracked); contents Very Good (occas. lt.-to-moderate
foxing). White 152-53 (a "notable volume"), Goldman p.327.
(Inv. #767) C$900 Home Page |