8vo. iv, 538pp. With an engraved frontispiece, a further eight engraved plates, and numerous engraved illustrations in the text. Attractively bound in contemporary gilt-tooled red morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, armorial bookplate of Mervyn Lloyd Peel to FEP, inked gift inscription to front blank fly-leaf, lightly foxed.

A handsome late Victorian edition of an anthology of English poetry, including extracts from, inter alia, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Dryden, Burns, Milton, and Coleridge; selected and arranged by Scottish writer Charles Mackay (1814-1889), and featuring illustrations by Millais, Gilbert, Tenniel, and Birket Foster.

Sir Mervyn Lloyd Peel (1856-1929), Conservative politician who held the offices of Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace.