E Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack — Summer Songs and Sketches

Griffith Farran & Company Produced and Printed By Ernest Nister.Rare title graded Very Good + in the Rare Dust-Jacket graded Very Good + with red silk bow binding with coloured pictorial Summer scene to the front cover.All the page edges are in gilt.These Summer songs and sketches were selected and arranged by E Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack and are superbly illustrated with sepia plates,featuring poetry by Tennyson,Byron,Matthew Arnold,Herrick Robert Burns and Nesbit etc.Binding remains firm with no loose leaves,one small closed tear to the top edge of the front cover.but it has survived remarkably well given it's age and certainly remains scarce in this wonderfully condition.Undated but Circa 1886.Ernest Nister work of genuine quality,all the page edges are in gilt.Contents remain lovely and clean internally.A most charming and handsome copy that would make an ideal gift.8vo 31pp First Edition [1886] H Bannerman,Mary Butler,Ellice Mack,WG Addison,Julius Luz et al Very Good+ Very Good+ First Edition London 4to