Poems

by Thomas Hood. Again Illustrated by Birket Foster by Thomas Hood, Myles Birket Foster

$175 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: E. Moxton, Son, and Co., 1872. Poetry FIRST EDITION THUS. Quarto 29 x 23cm , pp.vii; 180 4 . With 23 tissue-guarded engravings including a frontispiece by Foster. Publisher's purple cloth extravagantly decorated in black, blue and gilt to upper board. Titles in black and gilt to spine, blind-tooling to lower. Bevelled edges, all edges gilt. Cream endpapers. Publisher's advertisements to spine. Moderate spotting to preliminaries and rear leaves,

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.