Geoffrey Grigson; Various — The Victorians

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD, 1950. First edition. Leather. A finely bound first edition of this brilliant anthology of poems, collecting the best examples of Victorian writers. The first edition.Finely bound with a cityscape motif in gilt to the front board.An anthology of poetry exploring the wonders of the Victorian era.This volume contains a total of two-hundred and seventy-eight poems, with examples of the works of William Morris, Sir W. S. Gilbert, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the Rossetti siblings, Lewis Carroll, John Ruskin, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and, of course, Alfred Lord Tennyson, who is the central poet in this anthology.By Geoffrey Grigson; this was the last book of a trio, following 'Before the Romantics', and 'The Romantics&apos. Grigson was the editor of the influential magazine 'New Verse&apos. In a full crushed morocco binding. Externally, smart. Spine is faded. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine .