1860 Poems of James Montgomery. PROVENANCE - GIFTED BY JOHN B. GOUGH.

Title: Poems of James Montgomery. 
Author: Selected and Edited by Robert Aris Willmott
Publisher: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge: London. 
Published Date: 1860 
Illustrated: with one hundred designs by by Birket Foster, J. Wolf, John Gilbert, etc. Engraved by The Brother Dalziel.  
Pagination: pp.380
External Size: 23cm x 18.5cm
Condition: Very Good
 
Bound in the original publishers reddish/brown cloth binding featuring an elaborate gilt design to both front and rear boards and the spine. The boards are bevelled and in very good condition with some wear to the head and tail of the spine and some rubbing to the upper front joint and a superficial crack to the lower front joint. The contents are lightly age toned with some mild intermittent foxing, but otherwise clean and bright throughout. All edges gilt. 
 
There are two separate ink inscriptions to the front free endpaper dated December 1859 and then 1886 which highlight the provenance of the book. 
 
It was gifted by John B. Gough on Christmas Day 1859. After doing a little research it would seem that John B Gough was very well known in his day, as follows: 
 
"Although relatively unknown today, John B. Gough (1817-1886) was an international celebrity during his own lifetime. He was a temperance reformer and lecturer who delivered some 9,000 lectures to more than nine million people throughout the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Canada, France, and Switzerland. He was credited with inspiring 200,000 people to sign “the pledge” to stop drinking." [source - https://www.teachushistory.org/second-great-awakening-age-reform/resources/john-goughs-autobiography]