Brown Thomas Younger Editor (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Poor. Damp stained. Disbound, no front cover or spine. Rear cover attached. Half-title page through page 24 currently attached by a single thread. Later owner's information written on half-title page. ; Approx. 3 7/8" wide by 6". ; 126 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1818. Hardcover. half leather marble boards 168 pages, minor wear to boards, first 4 pages loose and signature Elizabeth Grazebrook to fep but still in good tight clean reading order. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. First American Edition. 126 pages; by Thomas Moore (1779-1852) Irish poet, writer, most famous for his Irish melodies, the story of "Lalla Rookh" and for his friendship with Lord Byron - for the "Fudge Family" - ".Moore now returned to his satirical mode in The Fudge Family in Paris (1818), a set of verse epistles attributed to writers ranging from a servile creature of the tories to a passionate champion of Ireland, with some light relief from Miss Biddy Fudge, a young lady of fashion. This too enjoyed considerable success.Moore's contemporaries saw him as a major poet. In Ireland he was pre-eminent, and on his visits there could rely on an ecstatic welcome at any public occasion." (Geoffrey Carnall in the DNB); previous owner name & line of script of Wm. A. Thurman New York 1819 on half-title page as well as another line in his hand on the back endpaper; binding lacks the top board; back board the original printed paper-covered type, with bibliographically interesting list of "Recently published and for sale by W. B. Gilley" who cooperated with Kirk & Mercein publishers of 'Fudge'; spine very worn away, title and some of the type ornament decorations still visible; 1/2 title page chipped away 1/4 at bottom; one internal leaf piece of edge torn away, loss of a couple of words; some foxing, spotting and soiling throughout; fair condition only and still an unusual imprint for this title, in the year of it's introduction.