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
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3231851
Summary
Bibliographic description
iv, 602p., plates. ill. 8vo zA Variant? This copy has publication date of 1867 at foot of introduction p.vi. Provenance: Inscribed: 'Mary Agar Robartes / Oct. 3rd 1878'. Binding: Late nineteenth-century full polished tree calf, gilt foliate roll to boards and board edges, blind roll to inners, spine gilt in compartments on three raised bands and two false, black spine label, marbled endpapers and edges. Bookseller's stamp of 'R. & A. Suttary, London'.
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)