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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Dramatic Sonnets | Anna Matlack Richards | Taschenbuch | 136 S. | Englisch | 2017 | hansebooks | EAN 9783337334321 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Hansebooks GmbH, Trakehner Weg 52, 22844 Norderstedt, gb[at]hansebooks[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Dramatic Sonnets of Inward Life | Anna Matlock Richards | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2025 | Antigonos Verlag | EAN 9783386198141 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Hardcover. 93 of 300 copies. A beautifully illustrated collection of poetry featuring angels, hell, tombs, soldiers, knights, cemeteries, shipwrecks, and more. Black and white illustrations on each page by Anna Richards (1834 - 1900), best known for her children's books including "A New Alice in the Old Wonderland." Raised in Pennsylvania as a Quaker, she became the wife of the celebrated American landscape painter, William T. Richards. Their daughter Anna Richards Brewster was also a painter. This collection of verses, first published in 1881, was designed "to give expression to every possible form of conflicting thought and feeling" (preface of 1881 edition). The sonnets printed in calligraphic style on fine woven paper. This volume has been rebound in full dark grey leather with five raised bands to spine with no lettering to it or front board. The interior is lovely save for some light offsetting to many pages caused by facing illustrations. Previous ownership inscription dated 1899, gifted to Esther Morton Smith to front free endpaper. Smith (1865 - 1942) was an American poet and artist. Quarto. 57 pages plus 3 page index of first lines. PRI/031308.

George Allen. 1898. Small folio, original green cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper board. Each sonnet reproduced from Richards's calligraphy with an accompanying black and white illustration. Head of spine a little rubbed otherwise a very good copy.First edition, limited to 300 copies.Anna Matlack Richards was married to William Trost Richards, a successful pre-Raphaelite painter who was an admirer and acquaintance of John Ruskin. At the time of her marriage to Richards in 1856, however, Anna Matlack had already earned a reputation as a successful poet and playwright. She and her husband eventually had eight children, including the artist Anna Richards Brewster, settling after extensive travel abroad, in Newport, Rhode Island. Richards published a sequence of sonnets in 1881 entitled Dramatic Sonnets and another, as offered here, in 1898, Letter and Spirit In the 1890s she published comic poems for children in children's magazines such as Harper's Young People and St. Nicholas magazine and, in 1895, A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, an expanded version of the stories she had invented years before for her children about their favourite fantasy heroine. (This biography comes from Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books: An Anthology, ed. Carolyn Sigler (Louisville: University Press of Kentucky, 1997).