Jean Ingelow Poetic Works Gilt Decorated Hardcover

The Poetic Works of Jean Ingelow, featuring a brown cloth binding with elaborate gold gilt and black stamped floral and sunburst motifs. Includes a frontispiece illustration titled 'The Haunt of the Nightingale' and a printed dedication to George K. Ingelow dated June 1863. Interior features a handwritten gift inscription from 'The King's Daughters of the Unitarian Church.' Condition shows wear to spine ends and corners, with some staining to the back cover and foxing to pages. All edges gilt.