The edges are rubbed and the preliminaries are foxed as are the end papers, else a clean, unmarked and solid copy. 784 pages, overseas customers please note this is a heavy book which will attract additional postag costs. "The originators of the CASQUET OF LITERATURE desired to produce a work which should present an interesting and suggestive collection of poetry and fiction chiefly of the nineteenth century" (Preface) Includes a series of beautiful steel engravings. No publishing date, c.1880s.