Gaieties and Gravities;
A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries.
By One of The Authors of "Rejected Addresses."
Horatio Smith
Third Edition.
In Three Volumes.
LEATHER
COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES
THIRD EDITION
Horace (born Horatio) Smith (31 December 1779 - 12 July 1849) was an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of Smith that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous."
Publisher: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, London
Copyright: 1826
CONDITION: These books are in poor condition. Leather. Half leather over hand marbled boards with hand-tooled spine and five raised bands. Volume I and II boards are heavily worn along edges and corners and detached. Volume 3 is MISSING rear board. The spine is heavily chipped with a significant loss. Hand marbled endpapers. Hinges cracked. These books are good reading copies or candidates for rebinding. The title pages are underlined in pencil. These books were rescued from the home of a history professor and are looking for a good home. The ex-libris on the front pastedown is collectible and belongs to the library of John Measure from the Lincoln's Inn. The text block is crisp and clean.
5" x 7.5"
LOC: CHAPEL
A Series of Sketches, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries.
By One of The Authors of "Rejected Addresses."
Horatio Smith
Third Edition.
In Three Volumes.
LEATHER
COMPLETE IN THREE VOLUMES
THIRD EDITION
Horace (born Horatio) Smith (31 December 1779 - 12 July 1849) was an English poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his participation in a sonnet-writing competition with Percy Bysshe Shelley. It was of Smith that Shelley said: "Is it not odd that the only truly generous person I ever knew who had money enough to be generous with should be a stockbroker? He writes poetry and pastoral dramas and yet knows how to make money, and does make it, and is still generous."
Publisher: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, London
Copyright: 1826
CONDITION: These books are in poor condition. Leather. Half leather over hand marbled boards with hand-tooled spine and five raised bands. Volume I and II boards are heavily worn along edges and corners and detached. Volume 3 is MISSING rear board. The spine is heavily chipped with a significant loss. Hand marbled endpapers. Hinges cracked. These books are good reading copies or candidates for rebinding. The title pages are underlined in pencil. These books were rescued from the home of a history professor and are looking for a good home. The ex-libris on the front pastedown is collectible and belongs to the library of John Measure from the Lincoln's Inn. The text block is crisp and clean.
5" x 7.5"
LOC: CHAPEL