The Last Knight

JOHN, Sargent.

Published by New York & Cambridge: Hurd and Houghton / The Riverside Press, 1871, New York & Cambridge, 1871

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1871. Inscribed and signed by the author. Description: Red cloth with white title plate to spine. Red endpapers, gilt upper text block edge. Inscription from author dated 1886 Massachusetts. Language: English. Book Condition> Good: Heavy wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Small loss of cloth to upper spine end and torn cloth to lower end. Sunned boards and spine. Very firm hinges with light prelim cracking to front endpaper. Marks to pages 138-9 with single spot to following ten pages. DJ Condition> No DJ. 200pp. Author: John Osborne Sargent [1811-1891] was a Whig politician, lawyer, journalist, and author Awarded the Sargent Prize at Harvard for translations of Horace John Osborne Sargent, died at his home in New York on December 28 1891 From the time when Mr Sargent entered college in 1826 he has been connected in various ways with Harvard, and has always taken a profound interest in his University While he was in college he was very much esteemed, for besides being valedictorian of his class he was a member of the Institute of 1770, the Hasty Pudding, the Med Facs, the Porcellian Club, Grand Master of the Knights of the Square Table, and editor of the Collegian In his work on the Collegian he had for a co-editor, Oliver Wendell Holmes In after life he had a good deal to do with Mr Holmes in editing a brochure entitled "Illustrations of the Athenian Gallery" and a collection of poems called "The Harbinger" His translation of Gruns Der Letzte Ritter, to which he gave the name of The Last Knight, a Romance Garland, he dedicated to Mr Holmes After leaving college Mr Sargent devoted himself to the study of law, and has since made for himself the name of an eminent lawyer He also gave much of his early life to journalism, editing such papers as the Roston Atlas, the Battery, the Republic, and the Courier and Engineer of New York In 1861 Mr Sargent retired from legal business, traveled abroad, and on his return settled down to the life of a scholar The library which he collected was one of the finest in the country He was very fond of German and Latin and translated many poems from each language It is in connection with his translations of Horace that Mr Sargent is most familiarly known to Harvard men The annual Sargent Prize of $100 for the best approved translation of an Ode of Horace is his gift He first made the offer in 1886 when the sum was divided up and distributed into three prizes. PLEASE ASK for additional photographs if required. Seller Inventory # 3995

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Last Knight

Publisher: New York & Cambridge: Hurd and Houghton / The Riverside Press, 1871, New York & Cambridge

Publication Date: 1871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ

Signed: Inscribed and signed by the author

Edition: Unspecified.