Poet's Country, edited by Andrew Lang, with Fifty Illustrations in Colour by Francis S. Walker, 1907

This attractive 1907 first edition brings together essays by noted literary figures—including Andrew Lang, J. Churton Collins, W.J. Loftie, E. Hartley Coleridge, and Michael Macmillan—celebrating the landscapes, homes, and haunts associated with Britain’s great poets. The volume is richly illustrated with fifty tipped-in colour plates by Francis S. Walker, each with a tissue guard, evoking the scenery that inspired the country’s literary heritage.

Poet's Country, edited by Andrew Lang. Contributors: Prof. J. Churton Collins, W.J. Loftie F.S.A., E. Hartley Coleridge, Michael Macmillan, Andrew Lang. With Fifty Illustrations in Colour by Francis S. Walker.

Published by T. C. & E.C. Jack, London and Edinburgh 1907. First edition.

A good cream cloth hardback with elaborate gilt and green printed front cover and spine. Cloth with some light soiling. Slight give in the spine. Bumped to head and tail of spine. With gilt top edge and rough cut edges elsewhere.

Text is bright, clean and soundly bound throughout with all colour Plates present as called for. Some showthrough to gutter between gatherings in places. Offsetting to endpapers and previous owner's inscription to first pastdedown. Plates with printed tissue guards.

Text in English.

xiv + 363pp + Plates.

Dimensions: approximately 240mm high x 180mm wide x 52mm.

Approximate weight 1382g (unpacked).