1874 The Works of The Right Honorable John Hookham Frere, In Verse and Prose. Complete in a set of three books, Published in London by Basil Montagu Pickering. This set has a binders stamp that says Bound by Zaehsdorf for John Wanamaker… this was a famous binder. These pieces consist of classic, antiquarian literature that was either acquired or custom-bound by the renowned London bindery Zaehnsdorf, and subsequently retailed by the famous John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia and New York. *John Hookham Frere was an English Born poet, translator of Greek literature, politician and diplomat. Frere’s reputation as a writer is mostly based on his translation of a number of dramatic works by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. He wrote his own poetry as well including, in 1817, a mock-heroic Arthurian poem with the grand title “Prospectus and Specimen of an intended National Work, by William and Robert Whistlecraft, of Stowmarket in Suffolk, Harness and Collar Makers”.
