Selected and edited by W. Garrett Horder The flyleaf contains the inscription W G, Xmas 1897. Published in London by Henry Frowde in 1896. This is a first edition. The collection includes work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Townsend Trowbridge, Henry Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Alice Cary, Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson. William Garrett Horder (1841–1922) was a prominent Congregational minister who was widely known beyond denominational boundaries as a hymnologist and compiler of hymn-books in an increasingly liberal tradition. Heavy cream vellum spine with bright gilt border and design, smooth deep red cloth boards, with gilt embossed title. A tight, bright and clean book.