The comic poets of the nineteenth century. poems of wit and humour by living writers
William Henry Davenport Adams (1828 - 1891)
Category
Books
Date
1881
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Nymans Estate, West Sussex
NT 3191247
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi, 400 p. ;. 18 cm. Pencil price 2/-. Provenance: armorial bookplate, motto Dirigat deus, lettered “Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel” [i.e. Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel (1872-1953)] over earlier bookplate lettered L. Messel 1886 [i.e. Ludwig Messel (1847-1915)]. Inscribed on half-title "L.C.R. Messel June 1890". Binding: publisher's red cloth, decorated in black, title gold-lettered on cover and spine "Comic poets".
Makers and roles
William Henry Davenport Adams (1828 - 1891)