Lot 315
  • 315

"POEMS ON THE WAR IN THE EAST", 1854-1856, (1 VOL.)

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500 - 700 GBP
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Description

  • Bound volume of 10 pamphlets or poems and two manuscript letters, 1854-1855, comprising:
  • Paper
1) Lushington, Franklin. Points of War. Macmillan & Co., 1854. second edition--2) Peace in War. Macmillan & Co., 1856. Inscribed by the author on title-page--3) Dobell, Sydney. England in Time of War. Smith, Elder & Co., 1856. Visiting card pasted down on title page; manuscript letter from Michael Joseph Barry to Monkton Milnes--4) Barry, Michael Joseph. Lays of the War. The Office of the Daily Reporter, 1855. Presentation copy inscribed by the author, printed with blue decorative border--5) Lushington, Henry and Franklin Lushington. Macmillan & Co., 1855; "Balaklava" (poem in German, undated, unsigned)--6) Letter from Joseph Small to Monkton Milnes (“Dear Sir, your friendship for literary men demand this humble tribute of my gratitude…”)--7) Small, George. Inkerman: A  Poem. Hope & Co., 1855--8) The Two Marches, July 9, 1856. Signed “F. H. D.”, inscribed by the author--9) The Other March (undated, unsigned poem)--10) A Monument for Scutari. Signed “R. M. M.” and dated “Sept. 1, 1855.”; 8vo, bound together, black half-calf with Lord Houghton’s armorial wheatsheaf stamp in gilt on upper board, marbled endpapers, all edges red

Provenance

stamp on binding of Richard Monckton Milnes, first baron Houghton (1809-1885); his son Robert Milnes, marquess of Crewe (1858-1945), bookplate; by descent to his daughter Mary, duchess of Roxburghe

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