A thousand and one gems of English poetry. Selected and arranged by Charles Mackay, LL.D. ... Illustrated by J.E. Millais, R.A., Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and Birket Foster.
Charles Mackay (1814-1889)
Category
Books
Date
1867
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3018279
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv,602p.,plates . ill.. . 8vo. With pencil markings.. Provenance: manuscript inscription on flyleaf: 'C.P. Trevelyan from M.F.W. Christmas 1886'. Twentieth-century pictorial bookplate: Ex-libris Charles Trevelyan [i.e. Charles Philips Trevelyan of Wallington, 3rd Bart. 1870-1958) signed W.P.B. 1902.. Binding: Full blue leather; gilt ruled on boards to form borders; gilt tooled on spine and board edges; marbled endpapers and edges.
Makers and roles
Charles Mackay (1814-1889), editor Sir John Gilbert RA (Blackheath 1817 – Blackheath 1897), illustrator Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 – Weybridge 1899), illustrator Sir John Everett Millais RA (Southampton 1829- London 1896), illustrator