Anonymous binding for N. P. Willis’s ‘Poetical Works’ (original) (raw)

Cloth binding for Willis’s ‘Poetical Works’

Unsigned

[circa 1875]

Cloth binding

6¾ x 4½ inches

Another inexpensive gift book of the seventies by a popular, but now largely forgotten, poet. The anonymous casing is a generic one that was used on every book in a series of contemporary versifiers. [Commentary continues below.]

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