THE POETS' YEAR 

being Pastoral Pictures of the Seasons

compiled and edited by Chas. W Tinckam

Frederick Warne and Co, London c1878

448 pages.

Red leather bound hardback with 4 raised bands to spine and bevelled boards.

Gold lettering to spine.

Blind tooling to boards and spine.

Lovely gold decoration to leather around the edges of the marbled endpapers.

Leather rubbed around edges and corners. 

All page edges are gold.

Illustrated with 4 colour plates by Birkett Foster. 

Hinges/spine possibly repaired and relaid??

Previous owner's dedication to endpaper dated 1878.