Various — Passages from Modern English Poets

London, William Tegg, c1876. Cloth. A delightful and scarce collection of poems with beautiful illustrations by the Junior Etching Club. A scarce work.An anthology of beautiful English poems by a variety of contemporary writers.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and forty-four plates.Collated, complete.Including 'War and Glory' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'The Brook' by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 'The Lovers' by Lord Byron, 'Hens and Chickens' by William Wordsworth, 'The Elm Tree' by Thomas Hood, 'The Oak of the Forest' by Robert Southey, 'Scene of the Plague' by Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and more. The plates were contributed by the Junior Etching Club, with illustrators including J. Whistler, John Tenniel, J. E. Millais, and more.A reissue of the William Tegg edition, with lithographs. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Small chip to the spine. A few light marks to the cloth, heavier to the rear board. Spine is a little discoloured. Rear hinge is starting but firm. Prize inscription to the front paste down. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with scattered spots. Very Good . Ill.: Various. Very Good .