All over Italy they sing so prettily. by Butler / Monro

Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1875-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Lacking spine leather. Library stamps and markings. 206 pages: illustrations, portraits.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Introduction by Harold Monro. Small octavo. xxxii, 113pp. Very good with toning to the edges and with wear and bumping at the corners. Contains two poems by W. B. Yeats ("The Fiddler of Dooney" and "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"), and contributions by Monro, Robert Graves, Rupert Brooke, John Drinkwater, Thomas Hardy, John Masefield, and G.K. Chestertonm among others. An uncommon collection.

London: A. C. Fitfield, 1916. Later edition. Hardcover. Good/no jacket. Harold Monro's copy, with his pencil signature and date on the fly leaf. Monro was a poet and the owner of The Poetry Bookshop in London. 1916, later edition of this work, published as part of the publisher's 'Complete Samuel Butler' series. Hardcover, original red cloth. Spine faded and discolored; bumping and shelfwear to the spine ends and corners. Sound binding. Unmarked text. Small note in pencil on the rear blank 'See pp. 46 / 51-53' that appears to also be in Monro's hand, but we're not positive. A cool association copy.