The Poet and the Painter. Or, Gems of Art and Song

400 pp. Full brown leather with ornamentation embossed and picked out in black on front and rear covers, with gilt ornamental cover vignette containing title, also gilt; raised bands and spine coffers picked out in black; bevelled boards; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. A nineteenth-century poetry anthology illustrated with engravings from the works of Turner, Maclise, Lanseer, and Hunt, among many others. Bookplate on front pastedown; leather scuffed at extremities and on spine; gilt spine lettering faded, and front board partially unglued from leather hinge; but still a nice tight volume with bright covers and interior.