A Legacy Library facsimile
Description
An anthology of songs and lyrics in English verse, with selections from 1550 to the early twentieth century, "arranged to show the growth and unity of the English poetic tradition."
How the series evolves
Books in this Series
Golden treasury
An anthology of songs and lyrics in English verse, with selections from 1550 to the early twentieth century, "arranged to show the growth and unity of the English poetic tradition."
Lob Lie-by-the-fire ; Jackanapes ; Daddy Darwin's dovecot
Three stories popular with young people in the late ninteenth century that present the English manner and temper of the time.
The wonder clock
24 wonderful stories, one for each hour of the day (clock), each with frontispiece (woodcut?) by the author, who also collected and illustrated the stories in the book (perhaps he wrote some of them as well). The hourly frontispieces also described what was going on in The House at the hour in question. Pyle's pictures and text were antiquarian, quasi-medieval. My parents read these to all of their 5 children aloud over the years (1930s-1950s), usually on hot summer afternoons. We LOVED them.
Sketches & scraps
Poems of nonsense and of day-dreaming. Includes Phil's Secret, Bobbily Boo & Wollypotump, Mrs. Simpkin and Mrs. Wobblechin, and the Palace.