Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans. Reprinted from the early editions, with Memoir, Explanatory Notes, Etc. Portrait and Original Illustrations

Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans. Reprinted From the Early Editions, With Memoir, Explanatory Notes, Etc. Portrait and Original Illustrations. The Lansdown Poets.

Author: Hemans, Mrs. (Felicia)

12mo.(4.875" x 7")c1890. Hemans, Mrs. (Felicia).London: Frederick Warne and Co. Full red pebbled leather with heavy gilt rule with fancy corners framing a gilt diamond with fancy gilt rule and floral corners to covers. Spine with four raised blindstamp bordered bands, gilt author/title to gilt bordered second compartment, fancy gilt diamonds with floral corners centered to each other gilt bordered compartment. All edges reddened gilt, marbled endpapers. Heavy gilt fancy rule to turn-ins over marbled papers. Red rule framing each page. Eight (8) full page engravings and an engraved frontispiece of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. Mild edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed with minor loss at tips, bumps more pronounced at top corners (see pic). Head of spine with small closed tears, no loss. Overall, a beautiful book.

From Wiki: Felicia Dorothea Hemans (25 September 1793 – 16 May 1835) was an English poet (who identified as Welsh by adoption). Two of her opening lines, "The boy stood on the burning deck" and "The stately homes of England", have acquired classic status. Hemans’ first poems, dedicated to the Prince of Wales, were published in Liverpool in 1808, when she was fourteen, arousing the interest of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who briefly corresponded with her. She quickly followed them up with "England and Spain" (1808) and "The Domestic Affections" (1812). Hemans‘ major collections, including The Forest Sanctuary (1825), Records of Woman and Songs of the Affections (1830) were popular, especially with female readers. Her last books, sacred and profane, were Scenes and Hymns of Life and National Lyrics, and Songs for Music. She was by now a well-known literary figure, highly regarded by contemporaries such as Wordsworth, and with a popular following in the United States and the United Kingdom.

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