POEMS BY THOMAS CAMPBELL, With a Memoir by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D., F.S.A. Scot

London: Charles Griffin and Company, 1870. Hardcover. Fine. The Emerald Series of Poets. Campbell (1777-1844), a Scottish poet, is remembered chiefly for his sentimental and martial lyrics, including the stirring patriotic war songs "Ye Mariners of England" and "The Soldier's Dream". With a printed advertising slip from the publisher laid in. 16mo: 210, 24 [ads] p. with a frontispiece portrait and 7 textual vignettes, all steel engravings by W. Greatbach, J. Goodyear, W. Miller, E.J. Portbury, E. Radclyffe, et al., after G. Barret, R.P. Bonnington, H. Howard, C. Leslie, Charles W. Radclyffe, T. Stothard, et al. The title page is printed in black and red. In the publisher's mauve patterned sand-grain cloth over beveled boards, with black-stamped borders, ornamental bands, and decorations, and a gilt-stamped portrait medallion, lyre device, and ornamental titling. Very light fading along the extremities; else fine. An exquisite example, housed in a custom cloth slipcase. Provenance: from the Publishers' Bookbindings collection of Ellen K. Morris and Edward S. Levin. (Inventory #: 77755)