1894 - Because I Love You, Poems of Love, First Edition

Selected and Arranged By Anna E. Mack

Published 1894, First Edition
Lee and Shepard, Publisher

”Love is too precious to be named
Save with a reverence deep and high”

Poetry on friendship and love.

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.

White cloth with blue & floral gilt detail, floral gilt detail and lettering to spine, numerous authors’ poetry within on friendship & love,binding tight, tanning of spine, some soiling to cover from age/use, inscription to endpaper, 228pp.

Size: 4 3/4” x 7”

A very beautiful and scarce piece from the past!