"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht

London: Alexander Strahan and Co., 1863. [Children's Poetry] FIRST EDITION THUS, with first issue advertisements at rear dated December 1862. Octavo (20 x 16cm), pp.x; 92 [10]. With 50 illustrations engraved on wood by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles and decoration to spine and upper. Blind tooling all over. All edges gilt; brown-coated endpapers. Black ink ownership to verso of flyleaf. Small binder's ticket to rear pastedown. Spine toned, with a little damage to the middle. Light rubbing elsewhere. Very good. A collection of Wordsworth's poems featuring children. Item #54933
Price: £65.00