The Poetical Works of Eliza Cook (The Lansdowne Poets)

Complete edition with explanatory notes, etc. 624pp. Bound in plump red leather with gilt lettering front and spine. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt. Gold-infused endpapers. Red page borders throughout. Tissue-guarded portrait frontispiece. Occasional illustrations. A little rubbed at head and heel of spine, some marginal toning on first and last few pages, a penciled word on title page, previous owner's name on front free endpaper recto, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. A handsome volume in gift quality. A volume of the poetry of Eliza Cook, the 19th century English writer and poet associated with the Chartist movement. A proponent of female political freedom, she believed in self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up. Her political views, as well as the fluidity of her words, made her popular particularly among the working classes in both Great Britain and the United States. Large 12mo.