The Household Book of Poetry. DANA (Charles A.).

JOHN BRIGHT'S GIFT TO HIS DAUGHTER THREE WEEKS BEFORE HER MARRIAGE

Collected and Edited by Charles A. Dana. Eleventh Edition.

Large 8vo. [245 x 162 x 50 mm]. xxvi, 798 pp. Bound in contemporary dark brown goatskin over bevelled boards, the covers blocked in blind with a central gilt lyre block. The spine divided into six panels with raised bands, lettered in gilt in the second, the others tooled in blind, the edges of the boards and turn-ins tooled with gilt rolls, marbled endleaves, gilt edges.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 443 & 445 Broadway. London: 16 Little Britain, 1866.

Light foxing at the front and back but a very good copy. Ink inscription on the half-title "To Helen P. Bright from her loving Father, 7th mo. 2nd 1866". Helen Priestman Bright (1840-1927) was the only daughter of the Liberal MP and reformer John Bright (1811-1889) and his first wife Elizabeth Priestman (1815-1841). July 1866 was a busy month for the family, with John leading the campaign for the Reform Bill and Helen marrying William Stephens Clark on the 24th.

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