Rejected Articles, First Edition (2 results)

First edition. Uncut in original publisher's buff paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Extremities worn, loss to spine. Pencilled ownership inscription of William St. Clair to FEP, scattered spotting. A collection of parodies by poet and essayist Coventry Patmore's (1823-1896) father, likely intended as a prose version of Horace and James Smith's Rejected Addresses (London, 1812). Of particular interest are imitations of two of the author's close friends, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt. William St. Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004). Size: 8vo.

First edition. First edition. Original drab boards, neatly rebacked. A collection of parodies by Coventry Patmore's father, avowedly designed as a kind of prose version of "Rejected Address," 1812, by Horace and James Smith. Of particular interest are imitations of two of the author's closest friends, Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt. This book proved popular in its day. From the library of H. Buxton Forman, with his bookplate and penciled initials, as well as the note: "I fancy this book is by P. G. Patmore." With 12-page publisher's catalog dated May, 1826.