Poems of Passion and Pleasure

London: Gay & Hancock, 1912. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 11.5" by 9". Dudley Tennant. Ella Wheeler Wilcox's most famous poetry collection, this edition beautifully illustrated with colour plates by Dudley Tennant. A very beautiful edition of the poetry of the American author Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Strikingly illustrated with a tipped-in colour frontispiece, and nineteen tipped-in colour plates.Collated, complete.This collection, first published in 1883, threatened to spark a scandal due to its title. However the poems became much beloved by the American public, the collection including poems such as 'A Fallen Leaf', 'How Like the Sea', 'Says Cupid to Mammon', 'Friendship After Love', and more.Illustrated throughout by Dudley Tennant.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. A few light marks to the boards, and a touch of discolouration due to the colour of the cloth. Minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some scattered spots, however all of the plates are bright and clean with no spots. Very Good Indeed