Title: The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
Publisher: Edinburgh. William P. Nimmo
Publication Date: 1871
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
17 x 11.5 cm. Additional engraved title page, xxiv, 574 pages. Portrait frontispiece and 11 steel engraved plates by Keeley Halswelle. All edges gilt. With wonderful ink birthday gift dedication in fine hand and dated 1872, from Sir Malby Crofton, 3rd Baronet (1857 1926) and 4 members of his family to his wife at the family seat, Longford House, Co. Sligo. Sir Malby was from a landowning Anglo-Irish noble family living in Crofton House (at Mote Park)-an imposing neo-classical house and the most impressive of its type built in Co. Roscommon. Full black morocco binding. Spine gilt ruled in 5 compartments with gilt decorations and titling. Both covers elaborately blind tooled , the upper board with gilt tooling, including a series of 14 tiny maltese cross motifs and a striking central French ivory inlaid panel (very slightly curling up at edges with 139 years of ageing), bordered in fine gilt scroll-work and stamped in gilt, blue and red decorative titling. The binding has some minor blemishes including a short vertical split within the ivorine panel. The unusual binding has a Victorian finesse and charm and a noble provenance. Bookseller Inventory # 4217