Patmore, Coventry

[Patmore, Peter George.] Chatsworth...Henry Colburn, 1844, 3 volumes, original cloth-backed boards [Sadleir 3302; Wolff 7032]; Marriage in Mayfair...in five Acts. Reynell and Weight, 1853, privately printed, later half red morocco over marbled boards, original wrappers bound in, POSSIBLY A UNIQUE COPY OF THE 1853 PRIVATE EDITION; Rejected Articles. Henry Colburn, 1826, original blue boards, drab spine, label (partially missing), from the library of H. Buxton Forman with his bookplate and pencilled initials dated 27 January 1879--[Hazlitt, William.] Liber Amoris; or the new Pygmalion. for John Hunt, first edition, engraved title with portrait, original boards--[Patmore, Henry.] Poems. Oxford: Henry Daniel, 1884, first edition, number 34 of 125 numbered copies, half blue morocco, original cream wrappers bound in, Richard Garnett's copy with his signature on the title page, bookplate of George Herbert Palmer, SCARCE--Crawford, F[rancis] Marion. Katherine Lauderdale. Macmillan Company, 1894, 3 volumes, original blue cloth, Coventry Patmore's copy with his ownership signature, from Hugh Walpole's library with his Brackenburn bookplate, VERY RARE, NO COPY RECORDED IN THE BRITISH LIBRARY, COPAC recording only the copy at the Brotherton Library in Leeds; some wear to bindings and spines and labels, occasional spotting or offsetting; various sizes (10)

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Hazlitt's Liber Amoris  relates in a series of letters the author's strange and highly inappropriate relationship with his landlord’s daughter, Sarah Walker. P.G. Patmore, Patmore’s father, was an intimate friend of Hazlitt and his confidant in Liber Amoris.
Henry Patmore was the youngest son from Patmore’s first marriage. He died at age 23, having already demonstrated his talent at writing poetry. Patmore arranged for the poems to be privately printed with the help of Edmund Gosse, who wrote a memorial poem for the collection.