Popular Poetic Pearls and Biographies of Poets 1889
"Popular Poetic Pearls and Biographies of Poets", edited by Frank McAlpine, published by Elliott and Beezley, Philadelphia, 1889, copyright 1885 by the publisher, illustrated with potraits. Sold by Subscription Only.
The volume includes biographies and poems of following writers:
Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Bayard Taylor, Walt Whitman, John Godfrey Saxe, Francis Bret Harte, Will Carleton, Edgar Allen Poe; John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Thomas Moore, Alice and Phoebe Cary, Thomas Hood, William Cowper.
There are 115 selected poems in this volume. Edgar Allen Poe is represented by his poem "The Raven". "The Deserted Village", by Oliver Goldsmith, and other popular poems of the listed authors belong to the selection.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) --------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c 2-6 weeks) ---- $27.50
World: Priority (c 2-8 weeks) ----- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, leather, tooled in gold front board [leather aging and wear, especially the edges]; collector's leather spine with four raised bands; 6.3/4" x 9"; floral decorated endpapers, stain and antique, dated 1893 inscription on the title page; 384 pages, all text pages decorated with a red frame and some vignettes, portraits of the writers, the poems and biographies are listed separately in the contents, gilt page edges, very good condition.
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"Popular Poetic Pearls and Biographies of Poets", edited by Frank McAlpine, published by Elliott and Beezley, Philadelphia, 1889, copyright 1885 by the publisher, illustrated with potraits. Sold by Subscription Only.
The volume includes biographies and poems of following writers:
Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Bayard Taylor, Walt Whitman, John Godfrey Saxe, Francis Bret Harte, Will Carleton, Edgar Allen Poe; John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Robert Burns, Oliver Goldsmith, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Alfred Tennyson, Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Russell Lowell, Josiah Gilbert Holland, Thomas Moore, Alice and Phoebe Cary, Thomas Hood, William Cowper.
There are 115 selected poems in this volume. Edgar Allen Poe is represented by his poem "The Raven". "The Deserted Village", by Oliver Goldsmith, and other popular poems of the listed authors belong to the selection.
US: Priority (c 2-4 days) --------- $8.50
Canada: Priority (c 2-6 weeks) ---- $27.50
World: Priority (c 2-8 weeks) ----- $37.50
Condition Report: Hard boards, leather, tooled in gold front board [leather aging and wear, especially the edges]; collector's leather spine with four raised bands; 6.3/4" x 9"; floral decorated endpapers, stain and antique, dated 1893 inscription on the title page; 384 pages, all text pages decorated with a red frame and some vignettes, portraits of the writers, the poems and biographies are listed separately in the contents, gilt page edges, very good condition.
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