Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry
Published by J Johnson., London, 1804
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United KingdomQuair Books PBFA
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Condition: Used - Good
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FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. xii, 297, [1, 2 titles 'Published by J. Aiken']. Full green morocco, spine ruled in gilt and stamped in blind, double gilt ruling to boards, gilt roll-tooled turn-ins. AEG. Marbled endpapers. Spine sunned, joints and edges rubbed, corners bruised. Armorial ex libris of Abel John Ram Esqr. to front pastedown, POIs of William St. Clair (pencil to verso of ffep) and Frances Anne Ram at Clifton (faded brown ink to half-title, and trimmed at leading edge). Ink spots to leading edge. A few marks, small losses to top corners of final gathering, else, clean and bright. Good+ A pleasing copy of John Aiken's epistolary introduction to English poetry, addressed to "Dear Mary," and owned, first, by Frances Anne Ram and later re-bound and incorporated into the library of her barrister brother, Abel John Ram Esqr., with his armorial bookplate (featuring numerous rams heads), before finally joining the shelves of the historian William St Clair, a renowned collector of the Romantics. Poets included by Aiken: Pope, Dryden, Waller, Addison, Swift, Milton, Gray, Spenser, Cowley, Butler, Green, Shenstone, Goldsmith and others. Frances Anne Ram (1836-1922; later Miller) and Abel John Ram (1842 - 1920) were the children of Rev. Canon Ram and Lady Jane Ram (formerly Stopford); Abel became a KC, practised at the parliamentary bar and specialised in local government matters. His son was Sir Granville Ram, the Anglo-Irish lawyer and parliamentary draftsman. Also from the collection of William St Clair (1937-2021) historian and author of important biographical studies relating to Romanticism and the creation of modern Greece, whose "collection of Romantic-era first editions was so immense that it spilled out into the homes of his friends" (Wilson, 2021). Frances Wilson (2021) 'William St Clair,' Obituary via Royal Society of Literature website.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry
- Author
- AIKEN, M.D., J.[ohn]; [RAM, Frances Anne]; [RAM, Abel John]; [St CLAIR, William]
- Publisher
- J Johnson., London
- Publication year
- 1804
- Condition
- Good+
- Binding
- Full morocco
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Poetry, Signed & Association Copies
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