BALLADS
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1879. Hardcover. Royal octavo: xii, 323, [1] pp. with the frontispiece with tissue guard, a steel engraving by J.C. Armytage after a photograph, and 54 pictorial chapter heads, all wood engravings. In the publisher's brown flat-weave cloth binding, with rounded boards; gilt-stamped ruled borders; and black and gilt-stamped stylized floral decorations, vignettes of lyre with crossed quills and pan pipes with crossed flutes, and ornamental panels with titling. All edges gilt, with turquoise coated endpapers with a black-printed maidenhead fern pattern. Light foxing to the prefatory and concluding leaves, with an occasional hint within. A particularly choice copy, with just a hint of wear to the corners and tips. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Item #78882
Price: $200.00