Chauncy Hare Townsend (16 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This 19th-century book of poems covers a wide range of themes including poverty, love, and nature. The author, writing during the Romantic period, expresses a deep reverence for the beauty of the natural world. The book also explores the human condition through poems that express the speakerâs personal experiences of hope, loss, and fleeting joy. The authorâs deeply felt language invites the reader to share in these emotions and contemplate the complexities of life and the human experience. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Condition: New.

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Condition: Good. pp. x, 360. Engraved title. Small 8vo. Full calf, gilt decoration. Endpapers foxed, main body of text block clean. The book has a charming manuscript inscription ' To my Dearest Caroline with every wish that affection can dictate from her faithfully attached ? Raikes Jan 12th 1823 Portland Place.' The initial could be W or SC. ODNB. Chauncy Hare Townshend 1798 - 1868 (he changed the spelling of his surname in 1828) was a poet, collector and self confessed hypochondriac. This book was his first published work. He was friendly with Dickens who 'affectionately inscribed ' Great Expectations to him and said upon hearing of his death 'It is not a light thing to lose such a friend, and I truly loved him' (Letters of Charles Dickens, 1880, 372).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1st ed. xi, 360p. Half-calf over red boards with marbled endpapers. Gilt decoration to spine five bands. Engraved title page depicts a stag, second title page has been removed. Date, 12th September 1859 to ffep. Chauncy Hare Townsend was born on 20 April 1798, and changed the spelling of his surname to Townshend in1828. He was educated at Eton and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and published his first collection of poetry in 1821. In 1840, at the house of the mesmerist Dr John Elliston, he befriended Charles Dickens, who later served as his literary executor. At the time of his death, Townshend owned the manuscript of Great Expectations. On account of his poor constitution, Townsend lived abroad for long periods of time. He died in London on 25 February 1868. Townshend left his library to the Wisbech and Fenland Museum; his bequest to what became the Victoria and Albert Museum comprised 186 oil paintings and 177 watercolour drawings, 832 volumes, 390 drawings, 1,815 prints, and gems, precious stones, cameos and intaglios.…

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Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 456.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 456.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 456.