1880's Golden Thoughts on MOTHER HOME & HEAVEN From Poetic and Prose retailer Literature, Illustrated

"Golden Thoughts on Mother, Home and Heaven" - From Poetic and Prose Literature of All Ages and All Lands by a variety of authors and writers. Circa 1880's (there is no date of publication stated); E.B. Treat; New York. The book features full-page engravings, vignettes at the beginning of the works, gilt page edges on all sides, and decorative floral end papers. The content are grouped into Mother, Home and Heaven, and contain samples of prose and poetry from a vast number of contributors (including Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Hood, Napoleon Bonaparte, L.H. Sigourney, James A. Garfield, Henry Ward Beecher, Sarah Hale, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Alfred Tennyson, Oliver Goldsmith, Margaret Sangster, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lord Chesterfield, Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott, Daniel Webster, Alexander Pope, Queen Victoria, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, William Cullen Bryant, John Milton, Seneca, Oliver Cromwell, Hannah More, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Penn, Charles Lamb, and many, many more).

Condition:
Some light soiling to the covers and spine; there is a 1 1/2" reddish stain at the bottom edge of the back cover; cloth tears at the corner tips; tiny cloth tears at the top and bottom edges of the spine. Bright gilt page edges on all sides. retailer Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages have occasional stains and smudges; there are also old scattered pencil markings here and there (such as lines or brackets around paragraphs, words/sentences underlined, and a few random words written - "Home" / "Good"). The title page has pulled from the spine 1" up from the bottom edge. Overall the book is in Good+ condition.