Golden Gleanings Of Poetry and Song With Choice Selections of Prose

The Best Productions of the Most Celebrated Authors of All Ages and Countries Including the Glories of Nature; Home Life and Rural Scenes; Famous Ballads; National Airs and Love Songs; Childhood and Youth; Patriots and Heroes; Tales of the Sea; The Brightest Gems of the World’s Master Minds Embracing Scotch and Irish Melodies; Tragedy and Sorrow; Sacred Poems; Quotations, Etc., Etc.

By Henry Davenport Northrop

Unable to tell date on copyright page; appears First Edition

Embellished With 250 Phototype and Line Engravings

Sections of prose include Home Sweet Home,The Charms of Nature, Poetry of the Year, Descriptions of Tales of the Sea, Album of Love, tales of Adventure and Romance, Ballads, Legends and National Airs, Hope and Memory, Patriots and Heroes, The Sword and the Plow, Rural Scenes, The World’s Workers, Beauty and Grandeur of the Alps, Childhood and Youth, The Crown of Genius, Thought and Sentiment, Tragedy and Sorrow, The gates of Pearl, & Wit and Wisdom.

Brown cloth with stamped beautiful pictorial in black with gilt detail to front board and spine, marbled endpaper, marbled edges to all sides, illustrated frontispiece, binding tight, clean pages, “Presented to” page filled out and dated 1908”, 544pp. Very good antiquarian condition.

Size: 7 3/4” x 10 1/2”

Rare Book; Unable to locate another.

A very stunning piece from the past!