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Author: Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller.
Title: The Poems of Schiller translated by Edgar A. Bowring.
Publisher: New York, Worthington Co., no date (1890).
Language: Text in English.
Size: 8 " X 5.5 "
Pages: xv-343 pages.
Binding: Attractive and very good, near fine, Victorian full decorated cloth binding (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover. All edges gilt.
Content: Very good content (tight and clean - as shown). 
Illustrations: Illustrated with a nice frontispiece portrait of Schiller and 4 full-page illustrations. 

The book: Scarce and Nice Victorian edition of the Poems by Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller.

The author: Johann Christoph Friedrich (von) Schiller (10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friendship with the already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They frequently discussed issues concerning aesthetics, and Schiller encouraged Goethe to finish works that he had left as sketches. This relationship and these discussions led to a period now referred to as Weimar Classicism. They also worked together on Xenien, a collection of short satirical poems in which both Schiller and Goethe challenge opponents of their philosophical vision.