The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems In the English Lang Uage

Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861. First edition : one of the 2,000 copies of the first impression, with the roman rather than gothic half-title, just four notes on p.323, etc. The original appearance of a perennial favourite - close on 300 of the finest poems in the language from seventy-five or so poets - from Sir Thomas Wyatt, Marlowe… Read more about this item

Cambridge : Macmillan & Co., 1861. First edition : mixed issue - with the four (rather than six) notes on p.323, obviously indicating the earlier printing, but with the gothic (rather than plain) half-title. The original appearance of a perennial favourite - close on 300 of the finest poems in the language from seventy-five or so poets - from Sir… Read more about this item

Limited edition on large pager. Small 4to. 3/4 blue calf with two red leather spine labels, spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Very good. (rubbing). 448 pages. Bookplate of Irish prelate Vincent Lloyd Russell on the front pastedown. Number 42 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Palgrave on the limitation page. Printed by Richard Clay and Sons.

New York: Macmillan & Co, 1900. Reprint.. Hardcover in tan cloth boards, no jacket.. Good unmarked, stained rear board, titling fading.. Enlarged and revised reprint, includes prefaces from the 1861, 1891 editions. Solid tight copy with clean contents. 4-3/4 x 7, 381 pp, index.