The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising The Best Poems of the Most Famous Writers, English and American [VINTAGE 1881] Coates, Henry T. (compiler and editor)

Fine condition black linen boards with gold spine lettering. Includes Author (compiler and editor) Dedication; Preface by Henry T. Coates dated October 18, 1878, Philadelphia. Table of Contents is as Follows: Index of the Names of the Poems; Index of Authors; Poems of Home and the Fireside; Poems of Infancy and Childhood; Poems of Memory and Retrospection; POems of Love; Personal Poems; Historical Poems; Poems of Patriotism; Legendary and Ballad Poetry; Poems of Nature; Poems of Places; Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs; Moral and Didactic Poetry; Poems of Labor and Social Question; Poems of Sentiment; Weird and Fantastic Poetry; Humorous and Satirical Poetry; Notes, Explanatory and Corroborative; and Index of First Lines. Illustrated with black-and-white engraved plates with fine condition tissue guard overlays plus an additional black-and-white engraved frontispiece plate with accompanying fine condition tissue guard overlay. Also includes gilt page edges on all three sides and a bound-into-the-volume purple satin ribbon page marker.