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    Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Leather. Little Journeys of English Authors Book II. LIMITED EDITION #342 OF 947 COPIES. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (name only.no inscription). Pages are clean and unmarked. Leather covered covers show edge wear with rubbing/soiling. Binding loosening slightly but still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day! Signed by Author.

  • Hubbard, Elbert

    Published by East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1899, 1899

    Seller: Collectorsemall, Rialto, CA, U.S.A.

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    Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Suede. Fair/No Jacket. Limited/Numbered. Ex-Library. Signed by Author. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. #408/940. Felt lining beginning to separate from lether cover. Edges scuffed & leather dry. Signed by Author(s).

  • Hubbard, Elbert (text) & Warner, Samuel (title page, initials & decorations)

    Published by East Aurora: The Roycrofters, 1899

    Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.

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    Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. No. 174 of 940 copies and signed by Hubbard on the limitation page. 12mo. volume in suede binding. Color tinted title page & initials. Condition: minor wear, discoloration & soiling to suede covers; upper 1/3 of 1st free endpaper (blank) trimmed away; else good. Signed by Author(s).

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    Simmons, Jack

    Language: English

    Published by Collins, London, 1945

    Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom

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    Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1945 First Edition. Size octavo, 256 pages. Green cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Dust jacket with silhouette bust portrait of Southey on front panel. Duo toned portrait frontispiece of Robert Southey. Text is illustrated with five duotoned plates. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed, tiny bookseller label to front paste-down, gift inscription on front end-paper else contents clean. Dust jacket condition very good, corners and spine ends rubbed, 0.5 cm tear to top front edge, spine slightly sunned, not price clipped. The gift inscription is to Biographer and Reviewer Malcolm Elwin from his wife Eve, Christmas 1945. Also loosely inserted is a sheet of Malcolm Elwin's manuscript notes he made as he went through the book and prepared a review of the book. Biographer and Critic Malcolm Elwin (1903-1973). Signed by Author(s).

  • Hubbard, Elbert

    Published by Roycrofters, East Aurora NY, 1900

    Seller: May Day Books, Los Altos Hills, CA, U.S.A.

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    Leather. Signed by Hubbard; frontpiece protrait of Southey with paper protector Very Good in slightly worn, faded, yapped suede; top edge gilt with deckled fore and bottom edges; detached silk ribbon bookmark; some transference from illuminated letters on to facing page throughout. Limited Edition numbered 578 of 940 copies.

  • HUBBARD, Elbert

    Published by Hubbard/Roycrofters, New York, 1900

    Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.

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    HARDCOVER. Limited edition. 104pp, suede, octavo. #508 of 940 signed and limited copies Little Journeys - English Authors. tight binding, clean throughout, waviness to the page edges, dynamic color to the title page, soiled wraps with clear gilt tiles, worn edges, Good.

  • Seller image for Rare Robert Southey / LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB THE CHRONICLE OF THE CID Signed 1958 [Hardcover] Southey, Robert - Introduction by A. S. Pritchett and for sale by Lavendier Books

    Robert Southey

    Language: English

    Published by Limited Editions Club, 1958

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    hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited Editions Club; New York, 1958. Hardcover. Signed by the illustrator directly on the limitation page in rear. Limited Edition. Book is limited to 1,500 numbered copies. This book is number 997. A Very Good, monthly letter laid in, decorative cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine label, top text block edge stained maroon, some rubbing along joint, binding firm, trace handling marks, previous owner bookplate sloppily removed from front free endpaper, without Dust wrapper. In a Very Good, some shelf wear, bit of handling/scuffing, some sunning to spine and margins, no splits, sturdy, Slipcase. A nice and clean copy. 4to[quarto or approx. 11.5 x 13.5 inches], 196pp., color illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book. Signed by Illustrator.

  • Hubbard, Elbert.

    Published by Roycrofters: East Aurora., 1900

    Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.

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    Frontis, hand illumination, 7 5/8 x 5 3/4, limp brown suede, gilt lettering, watermarked handmade paper, 104 pp. Covers rubbed, darkened and soiled, free endpapers and page edges toned, contemporary ink inscription and date, small tear to free rear endpaper, occasional light soiling, offsetting from ribbon page marker else good. LIMITED TO 940 COPIES, THIS IS NUMBER 79 AND SIGNED BY ELBERT HUBBARD.

  • Broughton, Leslie Nathan, editor

    Language: English

    Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1942

    Seller: Charles Bartman, Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.

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    Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Inscription neatly in ink on first free end paper; 8vo; with 131 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

  • Seller image for Poetical Works of Kirke White and Campbell. (2 Volumes in 1) Volume 1: Henry Kirke White's Poetical Works and Remains. With Life by R, Southey. Volume 2: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and other Poems by Thomas Campbell. for sale by Antiquariat Lenzen

    White, Henry Kirke - Campbell, Thomas

    Language: English

    Published by London, T. Nelson and Sons, Pasternoster Row and Edinburgh, 1853

    Seller: Antiquariat Lenzen, Düsseldorf, Germany

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    Klein-8. 17 cm. XLVII, 340 und XXXV, 112 Seiten. Signierter Handeinband (David Ryce, 129 Buchanan Street): Roter Ganzlederband mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel, Vorder- und Rückendeckel, sowie Kanten und Innenkanten mit gold und blindgeprägtem floralem/ornamentalem Buchschmuck. Rundum-Goldschnitt. 1. Auflage. Englischsprachige Ausgabe. Mit 7 gestochenen Illustrationen auf Tafeln (inklusive Titelblatt und Frontispiz: Portrait Henry Kirke White). Einband wenig berieben. Gutes bis (vor allem innen) sehr gutes Exemplar. First edition. English language edition. With 7 engraved illustrations on plates (including title page and frontispiece: Portrait Henry Kirke White). Signed hand cover (David Ryce, 129 Buchanan Street): Red full leather binding with gold-embossed back cover, front and back cover, and edges and inner edges with gold and blind-embossed floral / ornamental book decorations. Cover slightly rubbed. Nearly fine copy.

  • Seller image for HOMAGE TO SOUTHEY. POEMS CHOSEN AND WRITTEN BY H.M.S. EDMONDS, ETC. INCLUDING SELECTIONS FROM SOUTHEY. for sale by Burwood Books

    EDMONDS, Harry Moreton Southey.

    Published by Sylvan Press,, London,, 1944

    Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp viii, 62. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper, "To Mrs. Eva Greene, with affection and gratitude from Harry Edmonds." Slight fading at spine and slight spotting to endpapers, otherwise very good. Decent copy. Signedes.

  • Seller image for Southey. [FINE BINDING - ASSOCIATION COPY] for sale by MFR RARE BOOKS

    DOWDEN, EDWARD

    Language: English

    Published by London: Macmillan & Co., 1879

    Seller: MFR RARE BOOKS, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION "English Men of Letters" series. ASSOCIATION COPY inscribed by Robert Southey's granddaughter to the front endpaper. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (18.5 x 12 x 2.5 cm); pp. [8], 205. English text, edited by John Morley. Beautifully bound in full vellum gilt; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; title-page in red and black; printed footnotes; rear index in double columns. Printed in Great Britain by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Condition: VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the hinges and joints intact. Trivial marks to covers. Interior lightly toned, the front endpapers particularly browned from old newspaper clippings. A handsome copy. Notes: The first UK edition of this biography of Robert Southey by Edward Dowden, published as part of the "English Men of Letters" series edited by John Morley. This being a wonderful association copy with a family connection. The inscription reads: "With Love from Southey's Granddaughter. Sept 30, 1904(?)". Inscribed by Author(s).

  • Southey, Trevor

    Language: English

    Published by Signature Books, 1998

    ISBN 10: 1560850914 ISBN 13: 9781560850915

    Seller: Hampstead Books, Haverfordwest, United Kingdom

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    Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR WITHOUT INSCRIPTION ON THE FFEP, ON SEPARATE AUTHOR'S POSTCARD, AND ON PRE-TITLE PAGE WITH INSCRIPTION: "Dear Michael [?], with cherished memories and all love, Trevor"; also includes four-page brochure. Large format oblong book with colour reproductions of male and female nudes has light wear to textured boards, corners are bumped, pages are clean, binding is tight. Unclipped illustrated dust jacket has considerable edge wear and 2 7cm closed tears on rear cover, and the section has curled over, also smaller (1cm) closed tear, possible water damage, some tape repair. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day. NB: Due to the utter stupidity of Brexit, parcels sent to the EU may incur customs charges. Painter, printmaker, and sculptor Trevor Southey was born in 1940 in the Republic of Zimbabwe, known then as Rhodesia, to parents of colonialist Dutch descent. At age fifteen he emigrated to the United States, before relocating to England to study briefly at Brighton College of Art in Sussex. He returned to the States and enrolled at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where he earned his BA (1967) and MFA (1969). He then took a position as an art teacher at Brigham Young, where he remained until 1977 before focusing on his own art career. Part of Southey's reason for settling in Provo, Utah, was because of his exposure, in Africa, to the Mormon faith. He eventually converted to Mormonism and decided to move with his family to Provo. Here, he added sculpture to his oeuvre and established a following of collectors as well as students for the workshops he held at his studio. In the 1980s Southey came out as gay. Among his Mormon friends he struggled to find acceptance; however, this experience became a major source of inspiration to the artist, and evenutally made him a local icon among the LGBTQ communities of Utah. Following his divorce in 1985 he relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area; his children eventually joined him there. His artistic career continued to grow and he accepted commissions throughout the U.S. and in Britain. He became known for his figurative paintings and sculptures. In 2013, after a decade-long battle with prostate cancer and a recent diagnosis with Parkinson's disease, Southey returned to Utah to be cared for by friends and relatives. Once again, his children followed. He died on October 20, 2015. annex galleries. Signed by Author(s).

  • Seller image for Selected Works Of The British Poets, From Chaucer To Jonson, with Biographical Sketches by Robert Southey. for sale by D&D Galleries - ABAA

    SOUTHEY, Robert

    Language: English

    Published by London: for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1831., 1831

    Seller: D&D Galleries - ABAA, Somerville, NJ, U.S.A.

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION PRESENTION COPY TO SOUTHEY'S DAUGHTER. 1 vol., 9-1/8" x 6-1/4", (viii)1016pp., with the 16-page publisher's catalog dated April 1831 at front, inscribed on the half-title "Katharine Southey. Keswick. 26 May 1831. from her Father", bound in the publisher's original purple/maroon cloth, with the original gilt lettered leather spine label, some foxing to the tile-page, otherwise internally clean and bright, spine expertly relined, Bookplates of H. R. Merewether and C. F. Crokat to front pastedown, housed in a fine green morocco backed solinder slipcase. Provenance: The Property of The Doris L. Benz Trust sold for the benefit of Dartmouth College Library. Friday, November 16, 1984. Inscribed by Author(s).

  • SIMMONS, Jack.

    Published by Collins, London,, 1945

    Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Signed presentation copy: "To Norman from Jack with love. 11 April 1945." Pencil notes by NS in margins and end papers. Biography. 8vo.pp. 256. Original publisher's cloth binding in turquoise green, lettered gilt at spine. Black-and-white portraits of Southey illustrate the text./ Norman Scarfe (1923-2014) distinguished historian and author of Shell Guides (Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire). He landed on D-Day with the 3rd Division, later writing its history in 1947. Having read History at Oxford he moved to Suffolk and is known for his work on Suffolk history. He is the author of several 'Shell Guides.' Very good. Spine slightly dull and rubbed at edges. Signedes.

  • (Limited Editions Club) Southey, Robert

    Published by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen for the Limited editions Club, Haarlem, Holland, 1958

    Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

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    One of 1500 numbered copies, Signed by Sussan. Illustrations by René Ben Sussan. 1 vols. 4to. Cloth, leatherf spine label. Fine in fine slipcase Illustrations by René Ben Sussan. 1 vols. 4to One of 1500 numbered copies, Signed by Sussan. Signed.

  • Hubbard, Elbert

    Published by Roycrofters,, East Aurora, NY, 1900

    Seller: Reader's Corner, Inc., Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

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    Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a fine, unmarked, 1900 Roycrofters edition in limp brown suede binding with gold lettering, Copy Number 43/940 signed by Elbert Hubbard. A fine copy, no chipping of the Yapp suede binding, top edge guilt, satin marker ribbon. This is an exceptionally fine copy, photos on request. Signed by Author(s).

  • Seller image for Robert Southey. L'Homme et son Temps. - L'Oeuvre. - Le Rôle for sale by Librairie Le Feu Follet

    Jean RAIMOND

    Published by Didier, 1968

    Seller: Librairie Le Feu Follet, Paris, France

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    couverture souple. Didier | Paris 1968 | 16 x 24 cm | broché | Edition originale pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers de cette thèse soutenue en vue d'obtenir le doctorat es lettres. Agréable exemplaire. Envoi autographe daté de 1985 et signé de Jean Raimond au professeur Guy Degen : ". ce livre (ou péché de jeunesse) sur un romantique anglais "mineur"." | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, of this thesis submitted for the doctorate in letters. Handsome copy. Autograph inscription dated 1985 and signed by Jean Raimond to Professor Guy Degen: ". ce livre (ou péché de jeunesse) sur un romantique anglais "mineur"." [". this book (or sin of youth) on a 'minor' English romantic."] *.

  • SOUTHEY, Robert; WARTER, John Wood (ed.)

    Published by Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1856

    Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada

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    Leatherbound. Condition: Fair. 4 vols.: 1: xv, 431; 2: 431; 544; 605 p. 20 cm blue leather hardcover bindings with gold-impressed spines. Bickers & Sons's signed binding. Vol. 1 has chipped lower spine and detached rear board, vol. 3 has detached front board and chipped spine head; vol. 4 has chipped spine head. Hinges cracked, boards scuffed, corners worn. Good condition inside with clean pages. Attractive marbled endpapers and text block edges. Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets," and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843. He was also a voluminous letter writer to various individuals as this collection indicates. More photos available on request.

  • Higgens H R

    Published by Sunday School Union of Victoria, 1918

    Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland

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    Condition: Good. Enlarged edition - Original cloth somewhat stained and worn - Signed by the author - Rel0119 - 138pp. - Sunday School Union of Victoria, Melbourne Australia. 1918. Hardcover. . . . .

  • Davies, Marjorie Dick

    Published by K.B. Davies, 1974

    Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa

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    Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author.The dust jacket is shelf rubbed,and a touch edge worn. the dust jacket remains whole, bright and intact. Internally, there are no inscriptions,(apart from the author's signature) and the pages within are crisp, clean and complete although there is a little light and sporadic foxing. Tightly bound and presented charmingly in cellophane. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

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    New Edition. Good, tight copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age; head of v.1 backstrip lacking, with crosswise tear in the same area of v.2. Edges and prelims lightly foxed, with main text largely clean. Remains well-preserved overall. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Eliza Benson. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; Folklore -- England -- Devon. Devon (England) -- Social life and customs. Devon (England) -- Description and travel. 3 Kg.

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    New Edition. Good, tight copies in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and rubbed as with age; head of v.1 backstrip lacking, with crosswise tear in the same area of v.2. Edges and prelims lightly foxed, with main text largely clean. Remains well-preserved overall. SIGNED and inscribed by the author to Eliza Benson. Physical description; complete in 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm. Subjects; Folklore -- England -- Devon. Devon (England) -- Social life and customs. Devon (England) -- Description and travel. 1 Kg.

  • Southey, Robert

    Published by London : John Murray, 1823

    Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

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    1st edition. Near fine copies (3) in full aniline calf, raised bands and intricately blind-tooled. Marbled edges and end-papers. Boards dust-toned. Spine and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Author's presentation copy. Physical description; 3 volumes ; 28 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; 1807-1814. Peninsular War, 1807-1814. Napoleonic Wars. 3 Kg.

  • Southey, Robert

    Published by London : John Murray, 1823

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    1st edition. Near fine copies (3) in full aniline calf, raised bands and intricately blind-tooled. Marbled edges and end-papers. Boards dust-toned. Spine and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Author's presentation copy. Physical description; 3 volumes ; 28 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Subjects; 1807-1814. Peninsular War, 1807-1814. Napoleonic Wars. 1 Kg.

  • Seller image for LA ARAUCANA. DIRIGIDA AL REY DON FELIPE NUESTRO SEÑOR. [Two Volumes] [Robert Southey's Copy] for sale by Second Story Books, ABAA

    Ercilla y Zuniga, Alonso de

    Published by D. Antonio de Sancha, Madrid, 1776

    Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

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    Hardcover. Octavos, Two Volumes. In Very Good condition, housed in a slipcase in Very Good condition. Bound in contemporary full vellum with gilt ruling to boards and spines. Spines bear two black leather labels apiece with gilt lettering. Housed in a brown cloth-covered slipcase with black spine label and gilt titling. Binding carefully reinforced and tightened in the 20th century, with new head and tailbands as well as new endpapers, but with almost no outward signs of repair. Both labels at tail of spines worn. Occasional light toning throughout; no marginalia. Robert Southey's name and "1796" written on the verso of the front free end paper of each volume. Contains engraved portrait, folding map of Chile, and 3 plates. Three parts in two volumes, each with their own title pages. CONTENTS: Vol. I. (LVI, 298 pages) (Spine label almost entirely worn away; small chip to upper label. Includes additional half-title. Below Southey's name is a trimmed version of his bookplate.) Vol. II. (413 pages) (Includes four line provenance note in pencil, stating it was bought from a bookseller in New York City, June 1871, and signed "J. W. Dodd"). Shelved in Case 0. Robert Southey likely bought these volumes when he was 21, during his five-month sojourn on the Iberian Peninsula in the first half of 1796. That trip resulted in his first published prose work, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Spain and Portugal (1797). The bookplate in volume one was added around 1813, since Thomas Bewick did not fulfill the commission from Southey until 7 August 1813, upon which it was laid into every book in Southey's personal library. "Robert Southey's 45-book epic 'Madoc', published in 1805 after 16 years of intermittent labour and several major redrafts, has long been regarded as one of the most spectacular white elephants of English Romanticism.The poem's copious footnotes parade Southey's encyclopaedic reading in Welsh antiquarianism and the sixteenth-century Spanish chronicles.Southey's profound interest in the annals of the Iberian conquest of America (which he was reading in preparation for his monumental 'History of Brazil', published in 1810-19) might seem eccentric in comparison to the contemporaneous reading of Wordsworth or Coleridge, but less so if seen in a broader historical context. As British capital flooded into newly-independent Mexico after 1820, Southey's poem provided an imaginary template for the Anglo-Saxon financial 'reconquest' of the country's lucrative mineral resources from centuries of Spanish colonial misrule.An important instance of [David] Quint's 'epic of the defeated' which exerted a major influence on Southey's 'Madoc' was Alonso de Ercilla's 'La Araucana', originally published in Madrid in three parts in 1577, 1578, and 1590. Although Ercilla's poem was not nearly so well known in eighteenth-century Britain as Camoens' imperialist epic [The Luciades], attention was drawn to it by Whig and Radical poetic theorists such as Blake's patron William Hayley, and the American poet Joel Barlow, author of 'The Vision of Columbus'. A glance at the 'Common-Place Book' and the notes to 'Madoc' confirms that Southey owned a copy off the 1776 Madrid edition of 'La Araucana', which he turned to good account as a major source for his own American 'anti-epic'. In 1799 he composed a series of short 'Songs of the American Indians'.which included a 'Peruvian's Dirge' and an anti-colonial 'Song of the Araucans, during a Thunder Storm'. This poem exulted in the Araucana victory over the Spanish invaders.Ercilla's poem described the bloody uprising of the Araucana (Mapuche) Indians of Chile against the Spaniards in the 1550's, and the campaign to crush it led by the conquistador Don Garcia Canete, in which Ercilla the poet had himself been a combatant. In contrast to other Spanish eye-witness accounts.Ercilla's poem downplayed the imperative of Christian conversion and showed a remarkable sympathy for the Araucana Indians in their struggle against encomenderos and colonisers.Southey's 1805 'Madoc' borrowed episodes and characters from 'La Araucana', for example, the character of Lincoya was in part based on Ercilla's Lautero, his name borrowed from another Araucana character, Lincoza. The doomed love affair of Lautero and Guacolda resembles the romance between Lincoya and Coatel, and the celebrated single combat between the two Araucana chieftains Rengo and Tucapel in canto 30 seems to have inspired the battle between the Aztec warriors Ocellopan and Tlalala for the privilege of fighting Madoc on the gladiatorial stone in the fourteenth book of 'Madoc in Aztlan.'" [Robert Southey and the Contexts of English Romanticism, pages 133-136, Nigel Leask, edited by Lynda Pratt]. 1347156. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

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    The subject of the letter is the surgeon Henry William Robert Davey (1798-1870), son of surgeon Henry Sallows Davey (1781-1855) of Beccles, who also studied under Sir Charles Bell at the Hunterian School of Medicine in Great Windmill Street, London. Printed in black on one side of a 21 x 16.5 cm piece of paper. In fair condition, lightly aged, with thin strip of paper from mount adhering to edge on blank reverse. An attractive item, with an engraving of the front of the hospital at the head, beneath which, in an arrangement of types and point sizes: 'MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL. | THIS IS TO CERTIFY, | THAT | [Mr. Henry W. R. Davey] | HAS DILIGENTLY ATTENDED | [One] | COURSES OF OUR LECTURES, | ON | The Practice of Physic. | DATE. | [7 May 1820] | SIGNED | [P: Mere Latham MD] | [H H Southey M.D]'. Enclosed within rules, with printer's slug at foot. From the distinguished autograph collection of the psychiatrist Richard Alfred Hunter (1923-1981), whose collection of 7000 works relating to psychiatry is now in Cambridge University Library. Hunter and his mother Ida Macalpine had a particular interest in the illness of King George III, and their book 'George III and the Mad Business' (1969) suggested the diagnosis of porphyria popularised by Alan Bennett in his play 'The Madness of George III'.

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    Signed 'Geo. Ticknor'. The male recipient is not named, but the item is from the papers of the author Lady Theresa Lewis (1803-1865), successively wife of the novelist Thomas Henry Lister (1800-1842) and the Liberal politician Sir George Cornewall Lewis (1806-1863), all of whom have entries in the Oxford DNB. 2pp, 12mo. On first leaf of a bifolium, with a trace of glue from mount to the second leaf. In good condition, lightly aged and folded for postage. He is 'much interested that the Life of Ferdinand & Isabella written by a friend in America should be known in England, where it has already obtained some reputation & is well liked by Hallam, Allen & Southey.' He asks him to 'do me the favour to accept a copy of it from me. If it serves for nothing else, it may serve to remind you of the kindness you and your friends have shown Mrs. Ticknor and myself ever since we have been in Europe.' From the papers of Lady Theresa Lewis, which also contain two letters to her from Prescott.

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    Part of a cr. 8vo page, 18 x 14cm, aged but clear and complete, over-writing a letter on verso (part of) signed "B Gooch" [perhaps a relative of Southey's friend Robert Gooch]. SEE SCAN for full text. Title "On the Death of Riego". Four stanzas, 4 lines each. First lines "[He?] is gone the life of the good and brave | Has pass'd like a brief told story [.Last lines] Yet died he not unfriended; | Then the patriot's spirit breath'd forth one prayer, | And [soar'd] above unbended.".].

  • Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate of England from 1813 until his death. He was also author of the most popular version of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.Autograph Letter Signed, 4 pages, Keswick, March 22, 1824, to ?My dear Elmsley. Whether my book goes soon to a second edition or not I shall be much obliged to you if you will point out any statements or inferences in it which may seem erroneous. The one which you have instanced (except in the printer?s blunder) rests upon the authority of Laud himself, as you may see at the end of his diary ? in the thick of his troubles, p. 68. This is not stated as an instance of his generosity but as one of those cases in which he had employed his influence for the advantage of the church. With regard to the tone of the book, it certainly was my intent & hope in writing it that it might tend to excite & strengthen a spirit of opposition to what is called Catholic Emancipation, for if that question were cased I do not think any political consequences could ever more clearly & certainly (speaking as to human probabilities) be predicted than the overthrow of the present establishment. The Text Act must then of course be repealed. The defector?s work began with the romanticists & such of the squirarchy as are not say in propriators with both. Then away go the tithes either to suit the convenience of a needy minister or to gratify the wishes of a Whig one and in a second Reformation the church would lose all that was saved from the first. There is, however, nothing intolerant in my feelings. What I maintain is that it is a solecism in politics to admit any person to a seat in Parliament whose religious duty it is to overthrow, if he can, the eccl. Establishment. There are other ways to heaven besides the King?s Dunstable Road but there should be no other road to Parliament. Let them go to heaven by any byway they please. My book would have been better if I had been in reach of libraries. It is beyond the reach of ordinary private means (much more such limited ones as mine) to be provided for such a subject even with all the aid a publisher can be called on to afford. The only assistance I have within reasonable bounds is from Lowther & the library there is very far from being complete in any single department. I found, however there a rich collection of pamphlets published during the civil wars. It is not improbable that if this sketch of the church history should obtain a good sale I may seriously think of giving a similar view of our political revolutions. You are right in preferring a continental journey to a northern one in your own country. Were I a single man I would make such an annual jaunt also & indeed I still dream of seeing Rome before I did. But remember whenever you are disposed to turn your steps this way we shall be heartily glad to see you. You will find old friends with old faces compared to those with which you saw them last. God bless you. Yours most truly, R. Southey.? Very good. Southey and Rev. Peter Elmsley were schoolmates and remained close throughout their lives.The reference to Laud must be to Archbishop of Canterbury William Laud who was executed in 1645 by Oliver Cromwell for his Church of England views and opposition to Cromwell?s Puritanism, thus the probability that the letter refers to Southey?s 1821 book Life of Cromwell. After 1814 and the publication of his famous poem ?Roderick the Last of the Goths? Southey turned mainly to biographies and articles, his poems mostly being only ones necessary as Poet Laureate.