Patmore Coventry, Signed (16 results)

Condition: Very Good. First edition thus. Signed presentation copy from the editor : inscription on front free endpaper, 1949. Hardcover book . Pictorial boards printed in blue and red over grey paper, designed by L. Atkinson, and dustjacket of same design. 63pp. With 12pp introduction by Derek Patmore. Lightly bumped top spine, heavy tanning to endpapers and to closed edges. Jacket tanned to margins, with a few chips to edges, light stain to back. Very Good in Very Good jacket. Pictures available.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: G+. No Jacket. First Edition. Book has owners signature, bumped slightly worn corners, wear to the head and heel of the spine, Poet's signature has been afixed to the free front endpaper. Signed by the Poet. Book.

Sixth edition, 12mo, xii, [2], 216pp., bound in contemporary full vellum, signed front turn-in 'Bound by J. Larkins', spine tooled in gilt, all edges gilt.

8vo., viii pp.,230 pp., with a photograph, brown cloth binding with small white spine label. First edition.- Frontleaf with attached sepia photograph of the author with his signature.- Spine slightly sunned and chipped at the edges. Frontleaves foxy. Gelenke etwas gelockert.- Includes 'Amelia' his very own favourite poem and his better-known poems 'The toys' and 'To the unknown eros'.

Cloth. Condition: Poor. Spine and board edges heavily tanned, some rubbing and loss to spine and label. Front hinge completely split so textblock only attached to binding at rear hinge. Gutters cracked. Some foxing. Presentation copy from Edmund Gosse. To ffep is a previous owner name ( Arthur J Campbell) and also an inscription to "Charles W Campbell from Edmund Gosse March 1882". Size: 8vo. Signed by Edmund Gosse.

First edition. viii, 191pp, [1]. Original publisher's brown cloth, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed, Some loss to head of spine/lettering-piece. Endpapers toned, lightly spotted. Presentation copy, inked inscription to verso fo FFEP: 'From the Author'. The first edition of poet and essayist Coventry Patmore's (1823-1896) celebrated Romantic verse reminiscing on the courtship of his first wife; a companion work, which eulogised her, The Angel in the house: the espousals, appeared in 1856. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. First Editions. Inscribed by the author, "With the author's compliments" in first volume. The Angel of the House became extremely popular in its time, and the title became a Victorian phrase used to describe the ideal wife/woman. Patmore wrote this about his wife, Emily, whom he thought was perfect. John Everett Millais painted her portrait and used the same title as the book. After the first book there were three subsequent installments. This and the first installment formed a coherent poem. The later two were a separate poem inspired by the first. Bound in original rippled brown cloth with paper spine labels. Rubbed and bumped, and tears to The Espousals label. Interior pages generally very good. Pastedown to first volume stained and has remains of a bookplate. Second volume has a light ink inscription on pastedown and a pencil drawing and signature on the free front endpaper. Volume I: 191 pages; Volume II: 182 pages plus 16 page publisher catalog. LIT/040912. Signed.

First edition. Original cloth, printed spine label. Tipped on to free endpaper is a blank sheet of paper, inscribed by the author, 'Dr Acland with C. Patmore's Compliments.' Spine cocked and lightly faded, cloth slightly soiled and a little bubbled, rear endpaper browned, and creased at one corner, some foxing, else a good copy. Sir Henry Wentworth Acland was a physician and author. He was a particular friend of John Ruskin, who wrote of him with warm praise in Praeterita, and enjoyed the further friendship of a number of the Pre-Raphaelites.

In Two Volumes. Volume 1: London: John W. Parker (title conjugate), 1860; volume 2: London: Macmillan (title a cancel) 1863. Uniformly bound in Original green cloth, gilt lettered, ruled in gilt and blind, with the Macmillan imprint at the bottom of each spine. Colbeck, quoting Macmillan s Bibliographic Catalogue, 1891, notes that Parker sent copies of parts to Macmillan in May, 1863, but he didn t have v.1 with the Parker imprint, as here, but with a Macmillan imprint a cancel. (Colbeck, v.2, p.643). Macmillan s Bibliographic Catalogue (p.106) asserts that Macmillan did not produce its own electrotype plates until 1865. A presentation copy: "Miss Kate Robson with the Authors kind Regards, March 7th, 1873". Volume 1 contains "The Betrothal" and "The Espousals"; volume 2 contains "Faithful Forever" and "The Victories of Love" . The Betrothal and The Espousals were published anonymously in 1854 and 1856; Faithful Forever and Victories of Love came out with attribution in 1860 and 1863, respectively, Inspired by the author's wife, Emily, The Angel in the House celebrated in verse the ideal woman, her marriage, and domestic happiness. Ralph Waldo Emerson gave a copy of The Espousals to his brother's wife, Susan (Mrs. William Emerson), in 1856. When he learned that his friend Patmore was the author, he wrote to him (May 5, 1856): "I think there never was so sudden a public formed for itself by any poem as fast as here exists for the Angel in the House . .I give you joy and thanks as the maker of this beautiful poem .". There were good contemporary reviews and many reprints, but posterity has been unkind to Patmore. Perhaps unfairly, succeeding generations would hold up the "The Angel" as an example of the oppressed Victorian woman, victimized by her paternalistic society. Virginia Woolf read a paper to the Women s Service League in 1931, asserting that Killing the Angel in the House is part of the occupation of a woman writer .She sacrificed herself daily. If there was chicken, she took the leg. If there was a draught, she sat in it .she never had a mind or a wish of her own. ( Professions for Women , not printed until The Death of the Moth, 1942). Patmore's "Angel" has been the subject of many recent gender studies. Emily died in 1860, and Patmore married twice more. In 1881 he married his third wife, Harriet Robson, governess to his children, who must have been related to the Miss Kate Robson who received the present volumes from the author in 1873. Light wear and soil, moderate cloth bubbling. A Very Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 12mo. 157pp., followed by two pages of ads; errata slip inserted between final page of text and ads, before the front flyleaf is the eight-page publisher's "A List of Books," dated June 1, 1844. Original paper covered boards, spine has been professionally restored with a new spine and new spine label, but with the paper covered boards complete, with moderate signs of wear, text quite fresh and clean. Inscribed by Patmore on the title page: "Dr. Burns [Buins?] With the best regards of the Author." The author's first book. Patmore, a friend of Tennyson, Ruskin, and the Pre-Raphaelites, worked at the British Museum in the Printed Book department. Only one copy of his first book, a rebound copy, has appeared at auction since 1986. A scarce book, particularly inscribed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. 1 vol., inscribed by Patmore on the title-page "To Thomas Watts Esq. From the Author.", bound in 1/2 blue calf, floral gilt decorated spine, gilt lettered red morocco spine label, top edge gilt, others uncut, with the bookplates of "H. Buxton Forman" (his sale NY Anderson Galleries 1920 Lot #819) - J. O. Edwards & Joseph L. Lilienthal, hinges rubbed, head and foot of spine rubbed with some slight loss, internally clean and bright, still VERY GOOD. H. Buxton Forman was a 19th c. scholar, book collector and forger whose bibliographic misdeeds (along with the other great 19th c. forger T.J. Wise) were uncovered by John Carter and Graham Pollard in "An Enquiry into the nature of certain Nineteenth Century pamphlets.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION PRESENTATION COPY. 1 vol., 46pp(i)., original printed wrappers, a genuine, complete copy, inscribed the author "John Leicester Warren with the respect of C. Patmore" at head of title, internally clean and bright, general handling to covers, spine with inked title, VERY GOOD, housed in cloth chemise. Hayward 264. "'The first appearance of some of. Patmore's most important work. Only 250 copies were privately printed, of which Patmore, having sent some out privately, destroyed over a hundred of the remainder.'" The recipient of this copy, John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley (1835-1895) was a poet, botanist, numismatist and authority on bookplates. Inscribed by Author(s).

First editions. First editions. viii, 191pp.; viii, 182pp., 16pp. publisher's ads. 2 vols. Small 8vo. Inscribed in the first volume "From the author" Hayward 263; Tinker 1650-1 Publishers brown cloth, spine cocked on vol. 1, both paper spine labels darkened, some rubbing to the tops of spines. Light foxing to endsheets of vol. 1, otherwise very good viii, 191pp.; viii, 182pp., 16pp. publisher's ads. 2 vols. Small 8vo.

First edition. First edition. Original green cloth, paper label on spine. Family copy, signed by the author's son Tennyson (dated 23 May 1895) on top of title-page, with a later inscription to Hilda Sculthorpe, Patmore's nurse ("In memory of kind, and most skillful nursing, of a tired man"), author's compliments slip affixed to front endpaper with note beneath "transmitted from | his Son to H.S.," Some wear to binding, minor spotting and offsetting, else near fine. A rare family copy with multiple associations.

203x127mm. Single sheet, one sided. Undated. On Tavistock Hotel paper. In black ink, it reads simply: 'Dear Lady Simeon, | I shall have | much pleasure in | dining at your house on | Sunday. | Yours most truly | Coventry Patmore' A short but neat letter of appreciation. Patmore evidently dined at Lord and Lady Simeon's address at Swainston, near Calbourne on the Isle of Wight. Coventry Patmore (1823-1896) was an English poet and critic associated with the Victorian literary establishment, best known for his long poem 'The Angel in the House' (1854-62), which idealised domestic virtue and feminine devotion. Initially connected with the pre-Raphaelite circle, he later turned toward more spiritual and philosophical themes, particularly after his conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1864. Patmore also worked as a librarian at the British Museum and was respected in his lifetime as both a poet and a thoughtful literary critic.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Portrait etching by Samuel Hollyer, 6 x 8 inches, of Patmore, whose works include "The Angel in the House" and "The Unknown Eros." The engraving is signed in pencil by Hollyer (1826-1919), considered the last of the old school of American line-engravers, remembered for his landscapes, bookplates, and oft-reproduced portraits of famous historical figures, remembered for his landscapes, bookplates, and oft-reproduced portraits of famous historical figures. A stunning piece. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).