rutherford mark pseud (4 Ergebnisse)

Half title, front. Orig. maroon cloth. Bookseller's ticket of H.V. Day, Dorchester. v.g. See Sadleir 3017 & Wolff 7185 for the 1890 first edition.

Half title; some pencil notes. Orig. green cloth; spine sl. faded. Booklabel. Bookseller's ticket of H.V. Day, Dorchester. v.g. See Sadleir 3020 & Wolff 7188 for the 1887 first edition.

Half titles. Original brown diagonal fine-ribbed cloth; spine very slightly darkened, otherwise v.g. Sadleir 3013a; the contents vary slightly from the first edition as follows: versos of half title have 'some notices on the first edition' instead of ads. for Mark Rutherford's Works; imprint is on page (182) vol. I, page (190) vol. II, followed by ad. leaf printed on recto only. This identical binding on the third edition suggests that both Nowell-Smith & Sadleir arrived at the wrong conclusion; the green cloth is almost certainly the primary binding. William Hale White, 1831-1913, was a novelist & civil servant. He started his career as doorkeeper to the House of Commons. A nonconformist, his writing was strongly influenced by George Eliot, Spinoza & Carlyle.

75 lines, closely written in black ink, on all four sides of 4pp 8vo; lightly folded for posting. A v.g. clean example. A long letter from the journalist and novelist William Hale White, 1831-1913, who wrote under the pseudonym Mark Rutherford. The recipient is unidentified, but was clearly an expert on Charles Lamb, and it seems likely to be E.V. Lucas, whose 7-volume edition of the Works of Charles and Mary Lamb was published in 1903. White confides that he 'never read Ainger critically', but that he made 'a few pencil notes' in his copy of the letters. For the benefit of his correspondent, he then writes out his notes with page references, noting in particular an unpublished portion of Crabb Robinson's diary, in which Lamb's lowly opinion of Wordsworth's Peter Bell is described ('one of the worst of Wordsworth's Works'). White also writes out verbatim an unpublished letter from Lamb to Crabb Robinson, which concludes with Lamb's description of arriving home from a dinner party inebriated, to be 'floated upstairs on the coachman's back like a bird'. White goes on to thank his correspondent for sending a volume of Keats, and inquires, in a postscript, 'Did you ever read S.T.C's notes on Tennyson.? Well worth reading'. PLEASE NOTE: For customers within the UK this item is subject to VAT.