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The Quiver of Love, a Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern by various authors (London and Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876)

1876

Walter Crane, Kate Greenaway

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Artists: Walter Crane (1845-1915), Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
Author: Various Authors (1922-)
Publisher: Marcus Ward & Co. (British)
Title: The Quiver of Love, a Collection of Valentines Ancient and Modern by various authors (London and Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co., 1876)
Date: 1876
Object Type: Artist's Book
Medium: Book with 8 color lithographs, color letterpress title page, and uncounted wood engravings
Dimensions: 230 x 178 x 30 mm (9 1/16 x 7 x 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Accession Number: 1963.30.38700.1-9

Provenance: Moore S. Achenbach.
Small embossed stamp in upper right margin of letterpress title: with the publishers' compliments.
IUC on half-title: To my daughter Anne / on the eve of St. Valentine 1876 / with a father's love / from J. Whitaker
Remarks: Poets in the anthology include, from the List of Authors: Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Burns, Byron, Coleridge, Dryden, Heine, Herrick, Longfellow, Marlowe, Christina Rossetti, Shakespeare, Shelley, Sir Philip Sidney, Spenser.

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