Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets by William Howitt

George Routledge and Co., 1857. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1857. Third Edition. 706 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper and back pastedown. Tightly bound with faint thumb marking throughout. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

London: Richard Bentley, 1847. Second Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 504, 473pp. Green stamped cloth, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Spines chipped at head and tail, Volume 2 chipped near center, edges and spines faded, contents are age-toned, some foxing to first and last few pages,owner's bookplates on front pastedowns, pencilled name on front free endpaper, some cracking to hinges but binding is holding. Essays on 41 British poets and their homes, accompanied with an illustration of each home. From Chaucer to Tennyson.

New York:: Harper & Brothers,, 1847.. publisher's purple cloth.. Old Christmas gift inscription in each volume; slight very scattered foxing; spines sunned; tight and sound.. 8vo,. Illustrations Engraved by D. W. Dewet..

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: George Routledge and Sons Book. Fair. Brown Decorated Boards. 3rd Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Undated volume, circa 1860 from information in the preface, providing a detailed study of the birthplaces and residences of many British literary figures. 42 black and white illustrations, including tissue-guarded frontis. 706pp. All edges gilt. Bumping and rubbing to spine and corners, backstrip split, hinges weak with old repairs failing and some foxing to end pages, otherwise fair copy..