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Lot 117
  • 117

Southey, Robert

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
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Description

  • Joan of Arc, an Epic Poem. Bristol: N. Biggs for Joseph Cottle, and London: T. N. Longman, 1798
  • Paper, ink, leather
2 volumes, 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 in.; 210 x 127 mm).  Half-title and engraved frontispiece in vol. 1.  Contemporary calf; rebacked with original backstrips laid down.  

Provenance

Charles Lamb (presentation inscription) — Simon Nowell-Smith (bookplate) — Judith Adams Nowell-Smith (Bookplate)

Catalogue Note

One of 12 large-paper copies of the second edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Southey to Charles Lamb on the half-title, "Mr. Lamb from Robert Southey, June 13, 1798."

Joan of Arc appeared as a single volume in quarto in 1796 and was revised in two octavo volumes two years later.