[Hallam, Arthur Henry.]

8vo, first edition, printed without publisher or title page, 8pp. pamphlet, original blue wrappers

Simon Nowell-Smith, the sale of his collection by Bertram Rota, Catalogue 300, 2002, item 373

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extremely rare: no copy in NSTC, BLIC, or COPAC. There are two copies in American libraries (Yale and Princeton), but none in the UK.

This is the losing entry in the competition for the Chancellor's Medal for Poetry at Cambridge in 1829, alongside the author's great friend Alfred Tennyson's own winning entry (see lot 172).

Hallam's and Tennyson's intimate friendship at Cambridge was, of course, immortalised in the latter's In Memoriam (see lot 171 etc.). Hallam's authorship of Timbuctoo was only established by the publication of the Remains, edited by his father Henry, in 1934 (see lot 166). There is, suitably enough given his profound influence on Hallam's own writing, an epigraph by Wordsworth at the beginning of the poem