Bennett w c william cox (3 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. Presentation Copy from the author: "Rev. Derwent Coleridge with the Authors Compliments." English scholar and author Derwent Coleridge (1800 - 1883) was the son of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is an early work by William Cox Bennett (1820 - 1895), who wrote songs as well as poetry. He is best known for "Baby May," a sweet poem about his baby daughter, which appears in this collection. Other poems address a range of topics including witnessing an execution, supporting national education, lost love, love found, grasshoppers, a sonnet to Leigh Hunt, an epitaph for an infant (not Baby May), and more. Bound in original navy blue cloth boards with gilt title to spine and embossed design to boards. Chipping to head of spine. Interior rear hinge is cracked and spine is rolled. Ex-library with a few stamps to interior. Clean overall. 262 pages. POE/011916.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Spine and boards rubbed with some abrasions to leather and marbled paper. 20 x 10mm chip to marbled paper at lower corner of front board. A 10mm tear to leather at head of front joint. Some insect damage chips to lower corners of free endpaper, not affecting printed leaves. No previous owner's names. A pencil number of unknown reference, possibly a bookseller's inventory number, on front endpaper #64617.; No date [1840s]. No title leaf. Bound volume of 42 leaves. 3 leaves at rear have just the lower part of the leaf folding. 1 leaf has the upper and lower part of the leaf folding. Poetry broadsheets. Contemporary half calf and marbled papered boards. Page dimensions: 180 x 119mm. Most poems on 1 sheet, printed on 1 side only. Some poems printed on both sides. Some poems on 2 leaves or 4 pages. Some poems printed in blue ink. All poems with "Greenwich" and "W. C. Bennett" printed at end of poem. One poem "For Music" with marginalia "as though". This volume has all the poetry broadsheets listed in the volume OCLC 40878727, with the addition of several additional poems not in that OCLC copy. Contents of this volume (with first line of verse given for poems headed "Song"): Thoughts and Fancies - To a Cricket. To a Grasshopper; Song - Come sing - come sing; A Dirge; Thoughts and Fancies - For Music; A Summer Thought; Death's Lesson; Farewell; The Wife's Appeal - A Temperance Song; May-Day Song; The Robin - A Tale of Emigration; Song - Oh grant me heaven a quiet room; Sketches from a Painter's Studio - A Tale of To-Day; The Sempstress to her Mignonette; Song - Prithee tell me where love dwells?; A Valentine; The Smile; Song - Prithee what hath snared thee, heart?; Song - Not with the empty homage of an eye; A Cry for National Education; "Ernest is das leben" - Schiller; To the Right Hon. The Earl of -, An Humble Epistle Touching Scorn of Low Birth; Thou, Oh God, Art Love; A Triumph for the Repeal of the Corn-Laws; Song - A tinted cheek - the flash of eyes; "Which highest mortal in this inane existence had I not found a shadow-hunter or shadow-hunted" - Sartor Resartus; The Dress Maker's Thrush; Baby May; The Sick Man's Prayer; Song - I love no more - I love no more; Song - No - no - my love is no rose; No War - No War; The Squire's Lament; To A Locket; A Winter Song; An Old Man's Song; Song - Along beneath laburnum blooms; Song of Triumph; The Cry of the Lawful Lanterns; Your Owls Don't Like the Light; A Song of Hope; Baine's Figures; No Gas - No Gas. The similar volume OCLC 40878727 has in the description: "These poems were printed in this fashion for purposes of revision before publication in his volume "Poems" published in 1850".…