[SOUTHEY, ROBERT] [LANG, ANDREW and TURNBULL, W.B.D.D.]. Owain Miles, and other Inedited Fragments of ancient English Poetry. Edinburgh: self-published, 1837. One of 32 copies only, this a presentation copy from Robert Southey to Herbert Hill, dated Aug. 1838 with a three-line note in Southey's hand drawing attention to the kinship between an Italian romance (Il Meschino di Durazi, ossia il Guerriero) and the legend of St. Patrick's Purgatory. Full brown straight-grained morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with the arms on the sides of R. T. Hamilton Bruce, doublure with silk, silk end papers, gilt top. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches (19 x 12 cm); [ii], iv, 58, 16, 8, 32, 16 pp., with a hand-colored and gilded engraved vignette on the title. Spine faded, some rubbing and wear, internally quite fresh. Armorial bookplate (by Bewick) of Robert Southey mounted to one blank. A lengthy Southey inscription graces this rare collection of verses drawn from the Auchinleck Manuscript, presenting the book to his grandson, Herbert Southey Hill, who edited Wordsworth. This copy was sold at Anderson Galleries in 1906. C
[SOUTHEY, ROBERT] [LANG, ANDREW and TURNBULL, W.B.D.D.]. Owain Miles, and other Inedited Fragments of ancient English Poetry. Edinburgh: self-published, 1837. One of 32 copies only, this a presentation copy from Robert Southey to Herbert Hill, dated Aug. 1838 with a three-line note in Southey's hand drawing attention to the kinship between an Italian romance (Il Meschino di Durazi, ossia il Guerriero) and the legend of St. Patrick's Purgatory. Full brown straight-grained morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with the arms on the sides of R. T. Hamilton Bruce, doublure with silk, silk end papers, gilt top. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches (19 x 12 cm); [ii], iv, 58, 16, 8, 32, 16 pp., with a hand-colored and gilded engraved vignette on the title. Spine faded, some rubbing and wear, internally quite fresh. Armorial bookplate (by Bewick) of Robert Southey mounted to one blank. A lengthy Southey inscription graces this rare collection of verses drawn from the Auchinleck Manuscript, presenting the book to his grandson, Herbert Southey Hill, who edited Wordsworth. This copy was sold at Anderson Galleries in 1906. C
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