The Diverting History of John Gilpin (text by William Cowper)

DELUXE/COLLECTED FORM: the Picture Books were later gathered as gift books; the grand collected volume is "The Complete Collection of Pictures & Songs" (Routledge, 1887, preface by Austin Dobson, engraved and printed by Edmund Evans), issued in an ordinary trade edition AND a Large Paper Edition limited to 800 numbered copies signed by Edmund Evans — tall folio (about 12 x 15.75 in), cloth-covered boards, gilt spine, top edge gilt