8vo. xv, [1], 574pp, [2]. With a half-title and a photographic portrait frontispiece depicting Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Contemporary red leatherette, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Minor shelf-wear. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp.

A revised and expanded edition of this popular anthology of verse and lyrical poems arranged by late Oxford Professor of Poetry Francis Turner Palgrave (1824-1897). First printed in 1861, the work is dedicated to then Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson.