1899 Poems of Love & Beauty , Engravings by Edmund Garrett , Shakespeare Wedding

Description: Elizabethan Songs in Honour of Love and Beautie Collected and Illustrated by Edmund H. Garrett With an Introduction by Andrew Lang Published by Little, Brown & Co. Boston 1899 ( on the title-page in Roman numerals, MDCCCXCIX ) Hardcover. Cloth Binding. Stamped & Gilt Binding Decoration, with the motto : Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense ( Latin motto of motto of the Order of the Garter ; " Shame on him who thinks evil of it ") Top Page Edge Gilt. Deckle Page Edges, fore & bottom. 6.25" x 9.25" ( 31 ) + 178 Pages. Indexed by Author and by First Line of the Poems Over 120 years old. Over 120 poems ( songs ) written in the era of Queen Elizabeth of England ( 1558 - 1603 A.D. ), on the subject of love and beauty. With 21 photogravures ( with plate-mark ) from watercolors by Edmund H. Garrett ( 1853 - 1929 ). Edmund Henry Garrett was an American illustrator, bookplate-maker, author, and a highly respected painter - renowned for his illustrations of the legends of King Arthur. Garrett rose through the ranks to become a distinguished member of the Boston Art Club and the Copley Society of Art, and was an acquaintance and colleague of renowned impressionist artist Childe Hassam. During the last two decades of the nineteenth century, Edmund Garrett's paintings and etchings were widely exhibited throughout the United States and in France at the Paris Salon. During his lifetime, Garrett was a prolific illustrator of many books and publications, including various books of poetry by Tennyson , Keats , and Schiller ; the Legends of King Arthur ; Jane Austen 's Pride & Prejudice ; Marie Louise de la Ramee's ( Ouida ) A Dog of Flanders ; stories by Alexandre Dumas ; various books of Elizabethan and Victorian songs ; and other books by Longfellow , Sir Walter Scott , Shelley , Wordsworth , and Hawthorne , among others. Today, Garrett's works adorn the walls of the Art Institute of Chicago , Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , and the New York Public Library , the Boston Public Library , and the Massachusetts State House. Other works appear in collections at the Public Library in Winchester, Mass; Calumet Club (Boston, Mass.), Brookside Library; Conant Memorial Church; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Also includes 50 Headings & Tail-pieces from pen & ink drawings. Vignette portrait of Queen Elizabeth on the title-page. These Elizabethan poems were collected by Garrett, himself. Authors include William Shakespeare , Christopher Marlowe , James Shirley , Robert Herrick , Ben Jonson , Richard Lovelace , William Drummond , Thomas Carew , Samuel Daniel , Sir Philip Sydney , George Wither , Edmund Waller , Sir John Suckling , John Fletcher , etc., etc. A sampling of the titles includes : Song in the Wood Wedding Song Bridal Song Wake, Gently Wake To My Mistress's Eyes Serenade The Siren's Song Love's Request Cherry Ripe A Prayer to the Wind The Primrose Celia Singing In Praise of his Mistress Red and White Roses The Protestation Love in Her Sunny Eyes Eyes, Hide My Love Beauty , Arise ! The Invitation To His Coy Love Love Banished To Heaven Madrigal A Strange Passion of a Lover Lullaby of a Lover Menaphan's Song Cupid's Ingratitude The Reward of Innocent Love A Heart of Stone The Rock of Rubies To the Virgins How Roses Came Red Greeting's To My Love Love's Ecstasy Perfect Beauty The Kiss Venetian Song Rosalind's Madrigal The Deceitful Mistress To Althea from Prison Daphne Syrinx Love's College Arrows for Love Cupid Arraigned The Lover's Tears Oh, Mistress Mine A Wedlock Hymn The Looking Glass To One Saying She Was Old A Song to her Beauty And Many More Condition Some light wear to the binding. Some binding soiling. [ see the photos ] The hinges are very tight. No markings. Old ink inscription on the front endpaper : " Jennie, Merry Christmas , from Mother , 1901 " No other writing. Lacks the tissue-guards. Some foxing. The pages are otherwise in very good condition. Carefully packed for shipment to the buyer.

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