Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrative head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials.

Publisher's advertisements on p. 1-4 at end printed in red and black within a red rule border.

Most wood-engraved plates are signed "Swain Sc". Other signatures include T Cobb, F. Wentworth, Dalziel and Pannemaker.

"The Ornamental Title and Headings designed by Thomas Sulman."--Illustrations.

Includes works by Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Walter Scott, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Campbell, Lord Byron, Willam Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Alfred Tennyson.

MASS copy: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind. Upper cover with decorative titling in orange, green, red, blue and white paper onlays in a design similar to ornamental t.p. within the text. Spine with imprint: "Cassell, Petter & Galpin". Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g. With dark green painted endpapers.