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1840 Edward Moxon (London), 5 x 8 inches tall x 1 inch thick dark purple pebbled leather bound, ornate gilt-embossed decorations to covers, five raised bands and gilt decoration and lettering to spine, gilt dentelles to board edges, all page edges gilt, pastedowns framed with gilt dentelles on leather turndowns, xxii, 102, xi, 103, xiii, 98 pp. Covers moderately rubbed, bumped and edgeworn, with wear marks to the leather tips and exterior hinges, though the binding is quite solid. Front board very slightly bowed. Ink prior owner name to bottom margin of blank front free-endpaper. Bookplate to front pastedown, Slight marginal staining to prelims. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked - of this scarce issue. ~QQ~ Uncommon printing of all three of Talfourd's Tragedies, issued soon after the first performance of 'Glencoe' in 1840. Includes Ion, Sonnets, The Athenian captive, and Glencoe, along with Notes. Each play separately paged, with original half-title, dedication, prefaces, cast-lists, and notes; no separate title pages. 'Ion' from 4th published edition, 1836, including original 8 sonnets; 'The Athenian captive' from 2nd edition, 1838; 'Glencoe' from 2nd 1840 edn. Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1795-1854) was an English judge, politician and author. In his early years in London, Talfourd was dependent in great measure on his literary contributions. He was then on the staff of the London Magazine, and was an occasional contributor to the Edinburgh Review and Quarterly Review, the New Monthly Magazine, and other periodicals; on joining the Oxford circuit, he acted as law reporter to The Times. His legal writings on literary matters are excellent expositions. Talfourd's tragedy Ion was privately printed in 1835 and produced the following year at Covent Garden theatre. It was also well received in America, and was revived at Sadler's Wells Theatre in December 1861. His dramatic poem turns on the voluntary sacrifice of Ion, king of Argos, in response to the Delphic oracle, which had declared that only with the extinction of the reigning family could the prevailing pestilence incurred by the deeds of that family be removed. Two years later, at the Haymarket Theatre, The Athenian Captive was acted with moderate success. In 1839 Glencoe, or the Fate of the Macdonalds, was privately printed, and in 1840 it was produced at the Haymarket. Seller Inventory # TU-3LW7-IQMW
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