1893 LYRA HEROICA A Book of Verse for Boys WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Fine Binding

LYRA HEROICA
A Book of Verse for Boys

Selected and Arranged by David Nutt, London, 1893. Full leather fine binding, red calf with giltm gilt to all edges of pages and gilt to leather turn-ins of the boards, marble papers, pp xvii, 362.

CONDITION
A very good copy. The leather binding is very good with strong hinges, endpapers very good. Front blank endpaper has a name written on. All pages are very bright and clean throughout. Overall a very good copy.

Fine Anthology includes "Agincourt" by Shakespeare and Michael Drayton; "Heroic Love" by the Marquis of Montrose; Ballads, including Chevy Chase; "The Beauty of Terror" by William Blake; "The storming of Corinth" by Byron; "The Building of a Ship" by Longfellow; "The Heavy Brigade" by Tennyson; "A Sea-Fight" by Walt Whitman; "The Flag of England" by Kipling and much more.

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