[Rarebooks] Barry Cornwall (Bryan Waller Procter)

[Mark Stirling]

For Sale from Up-Country Letters, South Lake Tahoe, California:

 

(Procter, Bryan) Barry Cornwall.   English Songs and Other Small Poems.  London: Edward Moxon, 1832. First edition. Original embossed green cloth, gilt. "His last important contribution to poetry....with....a preface announcing his farewell to poetry." (DNB). Siegfried Sassoon's copy with his monogram label on the front pastedown. Cloth somewhat soiled but little wear except for chipping to the top of the spine. Cloth had not been used as a binding material for very long. A Very Good copy.   $275

 

Carlyle, Thomas.        Letters Addressed to Mrs. Basil Montagu and B.W. Procter by Mr. Thomas Carlyle.        No Place: Printed for Private Circulation, (1881). First edition, first printing, one of only 50 copies printed at the Chiswick Press (Tarr, A31).Contemporary half-leather, marbled boards by Strakley, bound with the final blank. A Very Good copy.    $450

 

Procter, Bryan Waller (Barry Cornwall).  An Autobiographical Fragment and Biographical Notes, with Personal Sketches of Contemporaries, Unpublished Lyrics, and Letters of Literary Friends.  Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877.  First American edition.  Original purple cloth, decorated in gilt and black.  Edited by Coventry Patmore (NCBEL).  A little sunning, else a Fine copy.   $60

 

[Cornwall, Barry (Bryan Waller Procter)]  Manuscript poem, "On Miss Fanny Kemble's Eyes".  Thirty-five lines, written in ink on both sides of one sheet by Procter's wife, the former Miss Skepper, step-daughter of Basil Montagu.  She has signed her husband's pen-name and dated it Nov. 20th, 1830.  This was printed as "To the Eyes of a Young Actress" in English Songs, second edition, enlarged, 1851.  It did not appear in the first edition of 1832.  The Procters and their daughter, the poet Adelaide Anne Procter, were life-long friends of Frances Anne Kemble.  Folded three times, in Very Good condition.   $175

 

(Bryan Waller Procter) Cornwall, Barry  Charles Lamb. A Memoir.  Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866.  First American edition.  Original purple cloth, gilt and blind.  Some wear, endpapers cracked at hinges, two gatherings starting.  A Good copy.   $35

 

 

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