Front cover image for The months : illustrated by pen and pencil

The months : illustrated by pen and pencil

Print Book, English, [1864]
The religious tract Society, 59, Paternoster row, London, [1864]
anthologies
xvi, 224 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 15 cm
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Copy [B] part of the Harrod Collection
Copy [B] with presentation inscription dated Jan 1865
Cuts incl. title page, initials and tail-pieces, and cover
Dr. Chalmers quoted at the beginning: "It is truly a most Christian exercise to extract a sentiment of piety from the works and the appearances of nature ..."
Purple pebble grain cloth; front, back and spine gilt-stamped in floral pattern incl. title; gilt-edged. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown: "Bound by Westleys & Co., London."
Texts by Tennyson, Cowper, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Milton, and others