Hood's Humorous Poems / Thomas Hood

Book

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American Bookbinders Museum

Front cover and spine

Front cover and spine

Name/Title

Hood's Humorous Poems / Thomas Hood

Entry/Object ID

2017.11.20

Description

xxxi, 236 p. : 130 ill. Preface by Thomas Ainger

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

Wit and humor, Poems, 1890s

Book Details

Author

Thomas Hood

Illustrator

C.E. Brock

Edition

First

Publisher

Macmillan & Company

Place Published

City

London

Country

England

Date Published

1893

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Binding Notes

Bound in dark green cloth with an elaborate detailed gilt illustration of the sun with a smiling face bordered by vines of ivy on the front cover. All edges gilt. Dark green coated end papers.

Notes

First edition published November 1893. Reprinted December 1893, a month after publication. Owner's name on bookplate and written in text: Grace M. Pugh