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186652348London: Longmans Green Reader and Dyer Paternoster Row 1866. Thick 4to. xii 2 239 1 pp. Woodcut-engraved & illustrated title in red & black illust. half-title in red & black red & black frontisp. many leaves printed in blue red yellow or green woodcut-engraved plates historiated initials head- and tail-pieces woodcut borders. Contemporary full red morocco with gilt ornamented designs on front & back cover gilt decorated spine raised bands marbled endpapers t.e.g. very minor rubbing at hinges minor rubbing to corners very slight tidemark to fore-edge of first couple leaves still a NF copy bound by Riviere w/ their stamp on lower fore-edge of inner ruled dentelle on front pastedown. First edition of this lavish Victorian work celebrating the life span of man in the 12 months of a calendar year beginning with the infant in January the schoolboy in February the apprentice in March as well as the soldier in June the philosopher and statesmen in September and more. Pigot has drawn upon the verse of Bacon Cicero Carlyle Caxton Chaucer Dickens Dryden Emerson Goethe Martial Shakespeare Sallust and Virgil. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, Paternoster Row, hardcover