1906 NATURE YEAR BOOK OF POETRY - ILLUSTRATED - PRINTED BY THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS - FULL SUEDE LEATHER BINDING

1906 FIST EDITION

NATURE YEAR BOOK

EDITED BY ESTHER MATSON

ILLUSTRATED

PRINTED BY THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS

*** RARE ANTIQUE FIRST EDITION ~ EMBOSSED GILT FULL SUEDE LEATHER FINE BINDING ~ ARTS & CRAFTS STYLE ~ CLASSIC POETRY ***

SELECTIONS FROM MANY IMPORTANT AUTHORS, INCLUDING

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, JOHN KEATS, EDMUND SPENSER, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, RALPH WALDO EMERSON, ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, ALFRED TENNYSON, CONFUCIUS, SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, ROBERT BROWNING, WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, THOMAS CARLYLE, ROBERT BURNS, ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE, WILLIAM COWPER, HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, JOHN BURROUGHS, JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, JONATHAN SWIFT, WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER, FRANCIS BACON, THOMAS GRAY, AUSTIN DOBSON, ETC., ETC.

New York: T. Y. Crowell & Co., 1906.

Printed by D. B. Updike, Merrymount Press.

• First Edition - title page date matches copyright date - no additional printings listed

• measures about 7'' x 4.75''

• beautiful full flexible (limp, yapp edge) suede leather Arts & Crafts style fine binding

• ornate embossed gold gilt and black stamping

• textblock top edge gilt

• pictorial endpapers printed in brown

• frontispiece

• vignette color title page

• illustrated with full-page plates