Literary By-Paths in Old England / Henry C. Shelley

Name/Title

Literary By-Paths in Old England / Henry C. Shelley

Entry/Object ID

2015.7.294

Description

400 pages. Frontis, illustrations, black and white photographic plates. Contents: English literary history. In Spenser's Footsteps; The Home of Sir Philip Sidney; Memorials of William Penn; the Birthplace of Gray's Elegy; Gilbert White's Selborne; Goldsmith's Deserted vVllage; In Carlyle's Country; Royal Winchester; Burns in Ayrshire; Keats and His Circle; Thomas Hood's Homes and Friends.

Collection

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Lexicon

Search Terms

1900s, Description and travel

Dimensions

Height

8-3/4 in

Width

6 in

Book Details

Author

Henry Charles Shelley

Edition

First

Publisher

Little, Brown & Company

Place Published

City

Boston

State/Province

Massachusetts

Country

United States

Continent

North America

Date Published

1906

Binding

Binding Type

Publisher's Binding

Binding Notes

Bound in finely ribbed green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and cover. Cover has a large ruled gilt stamping of an English church and graveyard. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges.

Notes

Published October 1906.

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Place

Country

England