A Treasury of Verse for School And Home. Selected by M. G. Edgar. 1932 reprint.

Title: A Treasury of Verse for School And Home.
Author: Selected by M. G. Edgar and Eric Chilman
Publisher: George G. Harrap & Company Ltd: London, Calcutta, Sydney. 
Published Date: The first edition was published in  1926. This is a later reprint dated 1932. 
Pagination: pp.523
External Size: 21.5cm x 15.5cm
Condition: Very good. 
Dust jacket: No jacket present. 
 
This is a lovely edition of A Treasury of Verse for School And Home. It features a wide selection of poetry which is divided into four sections; 'For the Littlest Ones', 'In Wood and Dale and Fairyland', 'In Realms of Gold', and 'On Parnassus'. Poems include 'Little Sorrow' by William Shakespeare, 'Cradle Song' by Lord Tennyson, 'Then' by Walter de la Mare, 'The Shepherd Boy's Song' by John Bunyan, 'The Ivy Green' by Charles Dickens, 'Pocahontas' by William Makepeace Thackeray, 'The Bells' by Edgar Allan Poe, and more.
 
Bound in the original publisher's cloth with a pictorial onlay to the front board and gilt lettering to the front cover and spine. The boards are in very good condition with light rubbing and bumping to the extremities and minor surface wear. There is an ownership label to the front free endpaper. The majority of the pages are very clean and bright, but there is some moderate to heavy foxing to the preliminary pages, which becomes intermittent and then disappears by about p.26. Also a crease to p.219. llustrated with a colour frontispiece, and seven plates, by Honor C. Appleton.