PEN AND PENCIL PICTURES FROM THE POETS
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1866. Hardcover. One of two issues published in 1866 [priority not known], this one with a vignette of an angel painting on title page. Octavo: viii, 52 pp. with a title page vignette and 35 full-page plates, all wood engravings, by J. Adam, T. Bolton, F. Borders, J.M. Corner, Pearson, and R. Paterson, after illustrations by Hugh Cameron, S. Edmonston, S.J. Groves, Kelley Halswelle, George Hay, J. Lawson, John McWhirter, and W. Smith. All pages with red-printed ruled borders. In the publisher's royal blue sand-grain cloth binding, with beveled boards; gilt-stamped floral ornamental borders, blind-stamped and gilt-stamped ornamental ruled zig-zag frame, gilt-stamped floral ornamental frame, blind-stamped and gilt-stamped ornamental frame, and gilt-stamped ruled ornamental frame with floral decorations and lobed panel with titling on the front panel; blind-stamped and gilt-stamped ornamental geometric rules with floral ornaments and titling on the spine; and a repetition of the front on the rear panel, except executed in blind-stamp. All edges gilt, with cream coated endpapers. Period presentation inscription opposite the title page: "Florence Soerita Goodsoe - Novbr 23rd 1869. From Col. Fitzgerald - on my wedding day." The bookplate of Nigel Hal Longdale Temple (1926–2003), an English artist, author, historian, and book collector, appears on the front pastedown, above the faint shadow of a removed bookplate. The binding is a tiny bit shaken, but still quite sound. Light wear to the corners and tips; else very good. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. Very good. Item #80900
Price: $100.00