kentish coronal consisting original contributions von adams (2 Ergebnisse)

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Richard Dadd (illustrator). First edition. H. G. Adams's own copy of the first edition of his very scarce anthology of Kentish poems, illustrated with a frontispiece from murderer Richard Dadd. A very scarce first edition.The editor Henry Gardiner Adams's own copy, with his inscription to the title page head. Adams was an English druggist and chemist, better known as an author and anthologist.Illustrated with a frontispiece by Richard Dadd.Dadd was a prominent English painter who in 1843 killed his own father, convinced he was the devil in disguise. He was sent to Bedlam and subsequently to Broadmoor, where he died in 1886. A pencil inscription to the front free endpaper details this information.A charming collection of 'original contributions, in prose and poetry, by persons connected with the county of Kent', and including contributions from the editor, alongside individuals including W. H. Bensted, Thomas Miller and R. W. Lomas. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light fading to back strip. Head of front joint starting, with front board somewhat tender. Rear hinge lightly strained, but firmly held. Pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Title page signed to head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good. signed by author. book.

Engr. front. Following f.e.p. removed. Orig. green cloth, blocked & lettered in blind & gilt; sl. rubbed, but overall a v.g. copy of a scarce work. A charming compilation of poetry and prose, inspired by and largely pertaining to the county of Kent. The editor, a chemist by trade, was a major contributor, the named author of 35 of the 100 or so pieces listed in the contents. Other contributors include the horticulturalist Anne Pratt who wrote on the cultivation of hops, the labourer poet Thomas Miller, and the cabinet-maker John Overs, in whose career Charles Dickens famously took great interest. Dickens himself was approached to contribute to the present volume, but in a letter written early in 1840, advised Adams that 'the pressure of other engagements' prevented him from obliging, but that he would happily be set down as a subscriber. The allegorical frontispiece entitled 'Invicta' is an early work by the Chatham-born artist Richard Dadd, 1817-1886, who along with W.P. Frith, Augustus Egg, Alfred Elmore, and others, was a founding member in the late 1830s of 'The Clique', a group of like-minded artists who wanted to break with the restrictive traditions of the Royal Academy. Ironically, most members of The Clique went on to become Royal Academicians themselves, but not the ill-fated Dadd, who, suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, murdered his father in 1843, having become convinced he was the devil in disguise. Dadd attempted to flee to France, but was arrested en route and incarcerated, first at Bethlem, that at Broadmoor, where he continued to paint.