Fifty Years of English Song

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Anson D. F. Randolph & Co, 1888. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Complete with red wrapper covers, gilt lettering on spines of covers (some sun damage to spines, fading gilt on covers -- vol. 1 has some water staining to cover but otherwise unharmed); red and white hardcover cloth, gilt lettering on spine of cloth. Pages are gilted on top edge, deccled on bottom edge, some pages -- particularly half titles -- are still uncut. Four volumes, comprising: (1) Selections from the poets of the reign of Victoria: The earlier poets, the Blackwood Coterie, and earlier Scottish poets, the poets of Young Ireland. (2) Selections from the poets of the reign of Victoria: The Preraphaelite Brotherhood, the ballad and songwriters, the religious poets. (3) Selections from the poets of the reign of Victoria: The poets of the first half of the reign, the novelist-poets. (4) Selections from the poets of the reign of Victoria: The poets of the second half of the reign, the writers of vers des société.