Robert Pollok — The Course of Time: A Poem

London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1879. Leather. A scarce new edition of this illustrated copy of Robert Pollock's best known poem The Course of Time. Scarce edition. New edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-three plates. Collated complete. The last and most famous work of the author, this blank verse poem is complete in ten books. Published here with a memoir of the author. Written by Robert Pollock, a Scottish poet. Illustrated by Myles Birket Foster, a British illustrator, watercolourist, and engraver. Bound in full brown morocco. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Fading to the spine. Minor loss to the head of the spine where it has been pulled a bit. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper. Very Good . Ill.: Birket Foster. Very Good .