{Fore-Edge Painting-Hunting, Walled City scene} The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell

8vo. 1848. London: Edward Moxon. Beautifully bound in maroon morocco, spine with elaborate gilt decorated compartments between 5 raised bands, 1 compartment with title. and boards with elaborately tooled panels surrounded by, 1-1/4" wide eloborategilt boarded, with gilt inner dentelles. edges gilt. Fore-edge painting of a hunter with dogs in a meadow with sheep. In the background is a walled city with a castle on a hill and a mountain nearby. Thomas Campbell (27 July 1777 – 15 June 1844) was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President of the Clarence Club and a co-founder of the Literary Association of the Friends of Poland; he was also one of the initiators of a plan to found what became University College London. In 1799 he wrote Pleasures of Hope, a traditional 18th-century didactic poem in heroic couplets. He also produced several patriotic war songs— "Ye Mariners of England", "The Soldier's Dream", "Hohenlinden" and, in 1801, The Battle of the Baltic, but was no less at home in delicate lyrics such as "At Love's Beginning".