THE BLUE POETRY BOOK: WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY H.J. FORD AND LANCELOT SPEED
Book Details + Condition: Longmans, Green and Company (London and New York). First Edition, 1891. Hardcover with three-quarters leather binding and marbled boards, endpapers and text block. 346 pages with index. Beautifully illustrated by H.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed. Andrew Lang's edited collection offers contributions from various famous poets, including Shakespeare, Longfellow, Scott, Burns, Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge, Poe, Milton, and more. The anthology includes works that celebrate themes of nature, adventure, and the emotional landscape of youth. Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards; front board has been re-attached at some point due to weak hinge, but remains firm; foxing to first and last few pages, with the occasional age-spotting to interior, which is otherwise clean and free of markings. All books are carefully packed, and shipped in boxes.
