8vo. [6], 248pp. With a half-title. Original red cloth, stamped in gilt and blind. Bound by Spottiswoode & Co., with a bookbinder's label to the rear pastedown. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine dulled. Book-label of Rugby School Library, Hodgson Bequest to front pastedown. Presentation copy, inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'Shadworth H. Hodgson / With love from / Jean Ingelow'.

The first edition of the third series of this collected of verse by English poet Jean Ingelow (1820- 1897). First printed in 1863, Poems brought the author immense critical and commercial success, and ran to thirty editions in her lifetime.

Shadworth Hollway Hodgson (1832-1912), English philosopher, first president of the Aristotelian Society, and author of the Theory of Practice (1870), The Philosophy of Reflection (1878), and The Metaphysic of Experience (1988).