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Zustand: New. In English.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Zustand: New.

Hard Cover. Zustand: VG+. First Edition. Undated, c. 1890. 12mo. original decorated blue cloth gilt, bevelled edge (a trifle rubbed & marked, occasional spotting & offsetting, prev. owner's details in pencil to FFE); pp. [ii], 80. A very good copy.

First Edition, contemporary diced calf elegantly gilt & blind-stamped. Large 4to, c.pp[iv] + viii + 300 + 4 Subscribers List. Engraving of Kirkstall Abbey and couple of preliminary pages bit dusty & soiled, neat 1883 private name stamp on verso of title. Binding bit scuffed, some light wear and one morocco label unobtrusively lacking. Generally a very good stout copy with text mainly clean & crisp. Rare. The earliest work by Dallas, a relative of Byron, best known now for his spiteful Recollections Of Byron. Among the c.250 Subscribers are William Beckford, Georgiana & Julia Byron, the poet Bloomfield's patron Capell Loft, the Lavenham (Suffolk) Book Club, and both the Monday and the Tuesday Book Clubs in Norwich. Includes the topographical poem Kirkstall Abbey [ruins on the River Aire near Leeds] for which see Aubin : Topographical Poetry. Also the Vocabulary Of The Passions, a 64pp essay and analysis of ambition, anger, antipathy, fear, sorrow, wonder &c and their deviant forms. See NUC noting 5 copies only : see 18thcSTC noting Cambridge & BL copies only. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.…