The Poets of the Nineteenth Century, Illustrated with One Hundred Engravings, Drawn by Eminent Artists, and Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel,1866

THE POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Illustrated with One Hundred Engravings, Drawn by Eminent Artists, and Engraved by the Brothers DALZIEL. New Edition 1866. The poets include: Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Mary Tighe, Anna Radcliffe, Anna Letitia Barbauld, Hannah More, Amelia Ope, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Charles Kingsley. Regarding the number of women represented Willmott notes in his "Preface" that "our Poetry owes many beauties to womanly genius, and in the following pages some specimens of it will be found". 

Author: Rev Robert Aris Willmott 
Title: THE POETS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Illustrated with One Hundred Engravings, Drawn by Eminent Artists, and Engraved by the Brothers DALZIEL. New Edition 1866.
Publisher: Frederick Warne And Co, London
Publication date: 1866  (first published 1857)
Format: Fine example of Victorian decoration. Red cloth covered gilt embossed boards with bevelled edges (both front and rear panels), gilt titles to cover and spine, all edges gilt.
Total Pages: 384
Condition: Very good. Binding firm, corners rubbed and bumped, spine tips pressed, presentation copy with inscription dated 1866
Provenance: The Art Library of Dr Alastair Grieve
Stock Number: RB02951