Because I Love You: Poems of Love (First Edition, 1894), Art Nouveau Half-Leather Binding with Verses by Celebrated Poets of Earlier Eras)

Selected and Arranged By Anna E. Mack

Published 1894, First Edition
Lothrop, Lee and Shepard, Publisher

A heartfelt anthology capturing love and friendships enduring essence. A poetic treasure from the Victorian era. 

Poetical works by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Samuel Coleridge, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Goethe, Thomas Hood, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Victor Hugo, Jean Ingelow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Walter Scott, Alfred Tennyson & many more.

Half-leather binding with deep teal morocco with marbled paper-covered boards and matching endpapers. The spine is richly decorated in gilt, featuring delicate floral and foliate tooling in an Art Nouveau–influenced style. The gilt-stamped title and author label remain clear and bright. Rubbing along the raised bands and extremities. 228pp.

Condition: Very Good 

Size: 5” x 7”

A very beautiful and scarce edition from the past. Would make a wonderful holiday gift.