Author: Wills, W. H., editor.
Title: Poet's Wit and Humour.
Description: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1861. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [viii], 278, [i]pp. First American edition. Publisher's deluxe red calf, covers and spine elaborately embossed and stamped in blind and gilt with central vignette of a cherub dressed as a jester and playing a lyre. All edges gilt. The embossing plaque is signed with the designer's initials: "R.D." With one hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas. NSTC 2W24418; Allibone 2762. This work is rarely found in the deluxe binding: The handsomely gilt-stamped publisher's cloth is the norm. Good.

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