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Author: Selected by H. W. Dulcken.
Title: PEARLS FROM THE POETS. Specimens of the Works of Celebrated Writers.
Publisher: London, Ward and Lock, no date (1860).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 9 " X 7 ".
Pages: viii-188 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good original full-cloth binding with a beautiful gilt paneling (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. Bound by Burn. All edges gilt.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight, and clean, rare light foxing or staining - as shown,  name of a previous 1862 owner on the first endpaper - as shown). 
Illustrations: Profusely and beautifully illustrated throughout.

The book: Rare and very attractive edition of PEARLS FROM THE POETS including poems from Spenser, Bryant, Wordsworth, Longfellow, Coleridge, Edgar A. Poe, Tennyson, Hemans, and many others.