Birket Foster, A Victorian Countryside Artist
This is a small book of engavings by Vizetelly, Dalziell, Evans and Green from illustrations by Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899) for books of poems by Longfellow, Cowper and Wordsworth. It was arranged by W.T. Farrer, rather than J.L. Carr.
(Last updated on 28/5/2021)
SBE-FOS1: First edition
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1987?
ISBN: None
Size: 129 x 95 mm
Pages: 16 pp
Staples: one
Binding: white printed glossy card covers
Paper: white
Arranged and designed by: W.T Farrer
Cover artist: Myles Birket Foster
Internal illustrations: 17 engravings
Number in series: none given
Colophon: sun face
Telephone number: none given
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: 39 printed and 10 added by hand
Printed by: not stated
Content: Short biography; sources; untitled engraving; The Shepherd Boy; A winter's morning; From Cowper's poems, The lace maker; The dog and the water lily; From Longfellow's poems, Evangeline; Playmates - Evangeline and Gabriel; Evangeline's wedding; untitled; Harvest home; Spring ploughing; The old clock on the stairs; untitled poem; From Montgomery's poems; A walk in spring; The daisy gatherers.
Rear and front covers
Inside rear cover
Notes: Only one impression has been seen. There is a copy of this small book in Pensylvannia State University Library according to Worldcat.org and a copy in the Library of the Society of Friends, according to COPAC.