Festus: A Poem (Signed)

London: Longman, Green and Co, 1877. Later Printing. Very Good. From Wikipedia:
Philip James Bailey (1816-1902) was an English spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus, first published anonymously in 1839, and then expanded with a second edition in 1845 A vast pageant of theology and philosophy, it comprised in some twelve divisions an attempt to represent the relation of God to man, and to postulate "a gospel of faith and reason combined"Among the admirers of Festus was Tennyson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow imitated it in The Golden Legend (1851) Bailey himself described his approach with the neologism "omnist" Margaret Fuller was an enthusiast for the work, if with critical reservations

The subsequent poems of Bailey, The Angel World (1850), The Mystic (1855), The Age (1858), and The Universal Hymn (1867), were failures The author then incorporated large extracts of these into the later editions of Festus, which ultimately extended to over 40,000 lines when the final edition was published in 1889 At one time his work was immensely popular, admired for its 'fire of imagination' (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

A very good copy in the original publisher's brown cloth with gilt title and design on spine Blindstamped floral design on both covers
[6] 689 pp [12] Half title, title page, dedication page, Original binding, but new endpapers Covers show minor scuffing, with minor chipping at spine ends Binding is sound A vintage photograph has been pasted to the reverse of the dedication page Inscribed by the author at the top of the title page and dated 1880 No other marks or damage to text at all 689 + 12 p ads pp.