The Household Book of Poetry 1884 Charles Alexander Dana ~ Antique

Title: The Household Book of Poetry

Author: Collected and Edited by Charles A. Dana

Description: Full leather, stamped in gilt. Corners show light wear; rubbed along spine edges. All textblock edges gilt, still bright. Inside dentelles and marbled endpapers. Unmarked and very clean. Eight plates with engraved illustrations. xxxii + 862 pages. An attractive copy.

Anthology of verse by more than 350 poets, touching on many different topics, including nature, childhood, friendship, love, ambition, comedy, tragedy and sorrow, imagination, sentiment and reflection, and religion. Three separate indexes (author, topic, and first lines).

From the Preface: ''The purpose is to comprise within the bounds of a single volume whatever is truly beautiful and admirable among the minor poems of the English language... A special effort has also been made to give every poem entire and unmutilated, as well as in the most authentic version which could be procured.''

The Household Book of Poetry was first published in 1857; this is the revised and enlarged edition on 1882. The compiler and editor, Charles Anderson Dana (1819-1897), was a notable American journalist, newspaper editor, author, and senior government official. During the American Civil War, he served in President Lincoln's cabinet as Assistant Secretary of War.

Binding: Leather bound hardcover
Condition: Very Good+

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company
Place: New York
Year: 1884