A SONG OF THE ENGLISH

London, Hodder & Stoughton, no date but believe 1909.  “This Edition of ‘A Song of the English’ is reprinted from ‘The Seven Seas,’ and the Publishers desire to acknowledge the courtesy of Messrs. Methuen & Co. in consenting to its issue as a separate volume.” (from copyright page).  Hard cover, 123 pages.  Very good; blue cloth with gilt lettering and green decoration on front board, gilt and green lettering with green decoration on spine.  Boards show light edge wear.  Top rear corner and bottom corners have tiny sections of board exposed; spine ends bumped and show some wear.  Some scrapes and scratches on boards and edges, water drop ghost on front board.  Binding cracked in areas but all pages very secure.  Evidence of removed book plate on front paste-down.  16 tipped-in colour plates, with descriptions on guard paper for the frontis, and the remainder on pages opposite plates; heavier stock paper used throughout.  Numerous black and white illustrations.  Touch of age spotting and soil on outer page block, very light age spotting to last few pages; interior clean and unmarked.  Poems dealing with the idea that the English were God’s chosen people providing they obeyed the law, as well as poems about England and various cities in the British Empire in the 19^th century.