The Casquet of Gems | Choice Selections from the Poets | Nimmo's Popular Poets | Mauchline Ware Wooden Boards
Including Geoffrey Chaucer, Ben Jonson, John Milton and Alexander Pope
(Book #ID 102045)
Published by William P Nimmo, Edinburgh circa 1874. 1874.
Original chestnut brown morocco backed Mauchline ware (lacquered wood) nature-printed wooden boards with oval engraved vignette to the front cover, binding with pattern of ferns and leaves stencilled on shellacked wooden boards to the front and back, the spine divided into six panels, lettered in the first, tools to the others, all page edges gilt. 8vo. 6¾'' x 4¾''. Contains tissue-guarded frontispiece, colour title, second title with vignette, (xx), 716 printed pages of text with 6 full-page single-sided monochrome engravings throughout. Two ink messages to the front end sheets dated 1874 and 1880, light rubbing across the spine ends and in Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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