Rainbow Gold - Dugald Stewart Walker - 1923 retailer hardcover - Poetry and illustrations - Art nouveau - Sara Teasdale

Rainbow Gold - Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls - illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker and compiled by Sara Teasdale. This book was first issued in 1922, this is a 1923 printing by Macmillan Company. This 7 x 5 inch book is 267 pages long, including the index of retailer poems at the end of the book.

The poems compiled in this book are not nursery rhymes, they are excepts of classic poems by writers like Shelley, Woodsworth, Milton, Yeats, Shakespeare, Tennyson, and many others. The art nouveau illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker include 18 full-page illustrations and an even larger number of smaller, partial-page illustrations. Walker's typical ornate style is on display, but there are also more minimal illustrations that are quite striking.

This book shows wear on the cover and the internal rear hinge shows some cracking of the decorative endpaper. The pages have age-related tanning, but no marks and no rips or tears.