Hannah collins (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. In English.

Paperback. Zustand: Very good in wraps. First Edition. 31 x 44cm unpaginated, 12 fold out pages each reveal a different orange and cream drawing. An edition of 300 copies published by the artist Hannah Collins, 1980 47 Arbour Square, London E1. Wraps slightly discoloured.

First American edition, 12mo, pp. [4] ads, [3], vi-viii, [3], 10-243; the final leaf used as a pastedown; original yellow paper-covered boards, green muslin shelfback, printed paper label on spine; spine sunned, label rubbed, corners bumped, text a bit foxed, but still a good, sound copy, or better. Ownership signature on the title page of Mary H. Wheeler, and her blue bookplate on the front free endpaper. Webbe (born Cornelius Francis Webb 1789-1850) "worked as a proofreader for the Quarterly Review. His poetry was published in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1813-1817, and the New Monthly Magazine, 1814-1817, and later in the Literary Speculum. He was an acquaintance and admirer of John Keats, who later referred to him as 'one of our party occasionally at Hampstead.' In 1817, John Gibson Lockhart used lines by Webbe as an epigraph to his infamous attack on Keats and Leigh Hunt in Blackwood's Magazine, 'On the Cockney School of Poetry;' which led Keats to privately denounce Webbe as a 'Poetaster'" (pennyspoetry[.]fandom[.]com). …