The Blue Poetry Book

London: Longmans, Green, 1891. First Edition. pp xx + 351. All edges gilt. With numerous engraved illustrations by W.J. Ford and Lancelot Speed including on the titlepage. Publisher's original blue, gilt-decorated cloth, nice and bright on the front. Edges of spine a touch rubbed, also points of corners and ends of the spine, as one might expect from a 130-year-old volume. Spine a touch dulled. Black endpapers, tight and unmarked. Contemporary inked gift inscription to half-title page. A VG+ copy. Contains some 200 poems by such luminaries as Blake, Longfellow, Walter Scott, Coleridge, Byron and Shelley. The companion volume to The Red Poetry Book also edited by Lang.