1909 - The Open Road; A Little Book For WayFarers

Compiled By E.V. Lucas

Published 1909
Henry Holt and Company, Publishers

Binding Cover Design By Bertha Stuart

Art Nouveau pattern design with ornate gilt detail

Scarce Edition

Compiled to provide “companionship on the road for city-dwellers who make holiday.”

”A garland of good or enkindling poetry and prose fitted to urge folk into the open air, and, once there, to keep them glad they came …”

Sections include: 
*Farewell To Winter and The Town
*The Road
*Spring and The Beauty of the Earth
*The Lover Sings
*Sun and Cloud, And The Windy Hills
*Birds, Blossoms, and Trees
*Summer Sports and Pastimes
*Refreshment and The Inn
*Garden and Orchard
*Music Beneath A Branch
*The Sea and The River
*The Reddening Leaf
*Night and The Stars
*A Little Company of Good Country People
*A Handful of Philosophy
*The Return

Poetry & Prose By Christina Rossetti, Charles Lamb, Wordsworth, Shelley, Tennyson, Hood, Whittier, Yeats, Bacon, Milton, Lord Byron , Shakespeare & so many more.

Limp red cloth binding with stunning gilt pictorial detail to front/ back boards and spine, gilt to all page edges, binding tight, name plate to inside front board, decorative/ pictorial endpapers, 326pp.

Size: 4 1/4” x 6 1/4”