EIDOLON, OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL, AND OTHER POEMS[: 'Alcesté', 'Pygmalion'; Miscellaneous Poems: 'Ode to Fancy', 'What is a sigh?', 'Ione', 'Reality', 'Retrospection', 'The stormy Petrel', 'To --', 'The Mermaid', 'The Spirit of the Air', 'Why do I love Thee?', 'Lady Annabel', 'To Jenny Lind', 'The Gold Seekers', 'To Woman'(!), 'The Poet', 'Evening', 'Life', 'Sorrow'; Sonnets: I. ''Written at Ulleswater.'', II. ''There is a spell by which the panting soul. . .'', III. ''We wonder on through life as pilgrims do. . .'', IV. ''Sweet spirits of the Beautiful! where'er ye dwell,. . .'', V. ''We are ambitious overmuch in life, . . .'', VI. ''Mountains! and huge hills! wrap your mighty forms. . .'', VII. ''To Elia.'', VIII. ''I traverse oft in thou

WALTER R. CASSELS (1826-1907, Poet and Theological Critic, Friend of Poets Robert and Elizabeth Browning, serving on the Legislative Council of Bombay from 1863 to 1865; Author of 'Supernatural Religion. - An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation.') / Charles Peel (Associate in the family's-business 'Peel, Cassels, and Company' in Bombay, representing the Cotton Supply Association in India; proveniance):

Published by London, William Pickering (Chiswick, C. Wittingham), 1850.

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1 blank sheet; xii pages (incl. foretitle-sheet, title-sheet, printed dedication-sheet, 'Contents' and 'Introduction to Eidolon'), 240 pages; 1 blank sheet. - Richly gilt handbound green chagrin-leather binding over 5 raised bands with gilt title at spine (stamp-signed ''Bound by Hayday'' at inner frontpanel), all edges gilt, silken marker-ribbon; 8vo.(ca. 18 x 11,5 cm). *** FIRST EDITION, LUXURIOUSLY BOUND RARE ORIGINAL OF CASSELS' FIRST BOOK; with printed inscription ''To Charles Peel, this Volume is inscribed by his Friend, W. R. Cassels.''. FRONT FLYLEAF WITH THE AUTHOR'S ADDITIONAL HOLOGRAPH DEDICATION ''To / Charles Peel / from his affectionate friend / . . .'', signed and dated in the year of publication; FRONT FLYLEAF WITH CASSELS'S 30-LINE HOLEPAGE POETIC INSCRIPTION TO PEEL: ''Dear Friend! True brother in that inward bond / Of spiritual birthright, that shall hold / When all the ties of Earth and flesh dissolve, / Thus do I bear to thee the ripened fruit / Of our young summer's dreaming - . . .'', MONOGRAMMED AND DATED BY CASSELL SAME DAY AS THE DEDICATION (October 4th, 1850). - Spine somewhat sunned (the leather-green changing to olive); rearjoint minimally-, frontjoint slightly-, ends of spine and sharp-corners somewhat rubbed; slight foxing mainly in the beginning and second half-, stronger at very few sheets; a BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THE BIBLIOPHILE RARITY WITH BEST ASSOCIATION. --- For more details about Cassels life and his publications see the wikipedia-entry. . .

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• Title: EIDOLON, OR THE COURSE OF A SOUL, AND OTHER POEMS[: 'Alcesté', 'Pygmalion'; Miscellaneous Poems: 'Ode to Fancy', 'What is a sigh?', 'Ione', 'Reality', 'Retrospection', 'The stormy Petrel', 'To --', 'The Mermaid', 'The Spirit of the Air', 'Why do I love Thee?', 'Lady Annabel', 'To Jenny Lind', 'The Gold Seekers', 'To Woman'(!), 'The Poet', 'Evening', 'Life', 'Sorrow'; Sonnets: I. ''Written at Ulleswater.'', II. ''There is a spell by which the panting soul. . .'', III. ''We wonder on through life...
• Publisher: London, William Pickering (Chiswick, C. Wittingham), 1850.
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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