HALLAM, Arthur Henry (1811-1833). Poems . [London: by Littlewood & Co., 1830]. 12° (175 x 104mm.). (Lacks first and last blank leaf, a few leaves very slightly spotted.) Later half calf, gilt spine with red lettering piece (scuffed at extremities, split at head of upper hinge), in cloth case by Riviere & Son. Provenance : George Moore (booklabel). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR R. C. Trench from his sincere friend A H Hallam. , on endpaper. Richard Chevenix Trench (1807-1886) was a member of the Apostles Club with Hallam and Tennyson at Cambridge, and later became Archbishop of Dublin. Wise Ashley Catalogue II p.167, explains the history of the volume, which was to have been issued together with Tennyson's Poems chiefly lyrical (hence the absence of a separate title) but was suppressed before publication. "Before the types were distributed a handful of copies were struck off for private circulation ... of these copies only two examples in all are at present known to have survived."
HALLAM, Arthur Henry (1811-1833). Poems . [London: by Littlewood & Co., 1830]. 12° (175 x 104mm.). (Lacks first and last blank leaf, a few leaves very slightly spotted.) Later half calf, gilt spine with red lettering piece (scuffed at extremities, split at head of upper hinge), in cloth case by Riviere & Son. Provenance : George Moore (booklabel). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR R. C. Trench from his sincere friend A H Hallam. , on endpaper. Richard Chevenix Trench (1807-1886) was a member of the Apostles Club with Hallam and Tennyson at Cambridge, and later became Archbishop of Dublin. Wise Ashley Catalogue II p.167, explains the history of the volume, which was to have been issued together with Tennyson's Poems chiefly lyrical (hence the absence of a separate title) but was suppressed before publication. "Before the types were distributed a handful of copies were struck off for private circulation ... of these copies only two examples in all are at present known to have survived."
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