Quarto. iv, 280pp. With an engraved frontispiece, an additional engraved title page, and decorative borders and Illustrations after Daniel Maclise to every page of the main body of text (excluding preface, index etc.) engraved by F. P. Becker. Handsomely bound in near contemporary richly gilt-tooled navy morocco, 'VIOLET' stamped in gilt to upper board, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed. Marbled endpapers, near contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf, scattered spotting.

A sumptuous production, in an appropriately elaborate binding, of a collection of Irish poet Thomas Moore's (1779-1852) verse; embellished with lavish and remarkably well-executed designs by his friend, artist Daniel Maclise (bap. 1806, d. 1870), in what is widely considered to be his finest achievement in book illustration.