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A catalogue of remarkable books published by Mr. George Redway (1887)

SEA SONG AND RIVER RHYME

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From Chaucer to Tennyson.

Selected and edited by Estelle Davenport Adams. With a New Poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Illustrated with Twelve Original Etchings.

“The selections have been made with judgment and taste.”—Glasgow Herald.

“The book is on the whole one of the best of its kind ever published.”—Glasgow Herald.

“Its illustrations are really exquisite.”—Glasgow Herald.

“The editor has made the selection with praiseworthy judgment.”—Morning Post.

“The value of the work is enhanced by a new poem from the pen of Mr. Algernon Charles Swinburne which displays deep and heroic feeling.”—Morning Post.

“Twelve really exquisite and delicately executed etchings of sea and river side accompany and complete this beautiful volume.”—Morning Post.

“A special anthology delightful in itself and possessing the added graces of elegant printing and dainty illustrations.”—Scotsman.

“An attractive volume.... Mr. Swinburne’s very spirited and patriotic lay appropriately heads the collection, while in addition to this new poem the editor has included some judicious selections from the poet’s works.”—Saturday Review.

“Mrs. Davenport Adams has evidently expended a prodigious amount of labour in making the collection comparatively exhaustive.”—Literary World.

“The volume is got up in the handsomest style, and includes a dozen etchings of sea and river scenes, some of which are exquisite.”—Literary World.

Fourth edition, with engraved frontispiece, in crown 8vo., 5s.

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