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Hood's Humorous Poems / Thomas Hood

2017.11.20

Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings

Wit and humorPoems1890s

Thomas Hood

C.E. Brock

First

The Cranford Series

London

England

1893

Publisher's Binding- Cranford Series

Bound in dark green cloth with an elaborate detailed gilt illustration of the sun with a smiling face bordered by vines of ivy on the front cover. All edges gilt. Dark green coated end papers.

First edition published November 1893. Reprinted December 1893, a month after publication. Owner's name on bookplate and written in text: Grace M. Pugh

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