Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrative head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials

Publisher's advertisements on p. 1-4 at end printed in red and black within a red rule border

Most wood-engraved plates are signed "Swain Sc". Other signatures include T Cobb, F. Wentworth, Dalziel and Pannemaker

"The Ornamental Title and Headings designed by Thomas Sulman."--Illustrations

Includes works by Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Campbell, Lord Byron, Willam Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Alfred Tennyson

MASS copy: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind. Upper cover with decorative titling in orange, green, red, blue and white paper onlays in a design similar to ornamental t.p. within the text. Spine with imprint: "Cassell, Petter & Galpin". Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With dark green painted endpapers

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