Philadelphia, PA: E. H. Butler and Company, 1860. 400pp/illus. Original full brown morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, raised bands, all edges gilt with 100 steel-engraved portraits and vignettes. Includes Robert Burns, William Cowper, Walter Scott, Charles Lamb, William Wordsworth, Thomas Moore, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar A. Poe, and many more. ages tight and clean. Covers loose with corner bumps. Occasional offsetting from engravings, publisher's elaborate full morocco beautiful.. First Edition. Leather. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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Bookseller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 005361
Title: A Gallery of Famous English and American Poets
Author: COPPEE, Henry
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket Issued
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: E. H. Butler and Company
Place of Publication: Philadelphia, PA
Date Published: 1860
Keywords: POETRY POETS LITERATURE
Bookseller catalogs: Poetry;

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