1. "The Golden Treasury of songs & Lyrics" by Francis Palgrave and illustrated by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale Hodder & Stoughton, London - ca 1925 first thus UK edition - 460p, 25cmx20cm - 12 tipped in colored plates by Brickdale - condition: a good copy with original yellow decorated boards with rubbing and scuffing, with all plates present Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (1861), an anthology of the best poetry in the language constructed upon a plan sound and spacious, and followed out with a delicacy of feeling which could scarcely be surpassed. Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945) was an accomplished painter, illustrator and designer whose artistic life bridged the Victorian and modern worlds. Her work was much influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite artists whose love of detail, colour, symbolism, storytelling and nature was so hugely influential on mid Victorian Britain. Eleanor's own work carried the Pre-Raphaelite style forward into the 20th century. Indeed she became known as 'the last Pre-Raphaelite'. Despite her huge popularity in her own time, Eleanor's work has been neglected since her death in 1945.