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
Monk's House, Rodmell, East Sussex
NT 3231672
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv,602p.,plates. ill... 8vo. Not indigenous. Imperfect: wanting free front endpaper. This copy has a final advertisement leaf. Provenance: inscribed on upper pastedown "[R.L.?] Archer Septembr 1885". Blind-embossed stamp on titlepage: Leamington College Simmons Bookseller. Binding: publisher's brown cloth, gold-lettered on upper board and spine.
Makers and roles
Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Sir John Gilbert (1817-1897) Myles Birket Foster (North Shields 1825 – Weybridge 1899) Sir John Everett Millais RA (Southampton 1829- London 1896)