Description: Two smartly bound volumes discussing the favored locations of the most famous poets in the English language through the mid 19th century. Illustrated throughout, and also has 20 plates, two in color. Full leather bindings, with blind and gilt tooling, board edges pattern rolled and gilt; marbled end papers and edges. Good condition, title pages bear ink manuscript owners name and date "Wm Coates 1857", light toning, selected plates have damp stains, esp Thomas Moore, see photos. Some rubbing to corners, a handsome set. Prolific English writer and historian William Howitt's study of the lives of 'Eminent British Poets', in which he details the residences and regularly visited locations of the most recognizable poets of the English language. With such figures as Chaucer, Shelley, Spencer Byron and Keats explored in volume I, and Felicia Hemans, Baillie, Wordsworth and Tennyson in volume II. Illustrated throughout with vignette illustrations of the locations mentioned by British engravers George Samuel Measom and W. Measom.
Price: 275 USD
Location: New Harbor, Maine
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: London
Language: English
Author: William Howitt
Publisher: Richard Bentley
Topic: Poetry
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Year Printed: 1849
