Edwin Hamilton — The Moderate Man and Other Verses

London, Ward and Downey , 1888. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this uncommon collection of verses by Edwin Hamilton, with illustrations. First edition of this uncommon work. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Offering a series of thirty-two entertaining verses by British writer and editor Edwin Hamilton, including 'The Barrel Organ', 'An Iron Belle', 'Common-Sense Courtship' and 'Stranger than Fiction', among others. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven further plates by Harry Furniss. Collated, complete. In the original pictorial cloth binding. Externally, with rubbing and bumping to the extremities and marks to the boards. Fading to the spine. Front hinge is tender, but held firm by cords. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with the occasional light spotting or handling mark. Good . Ill.: Harry Furniss. Good .