[Rarebooks] For Sale: Praed's "Lillian"

[Norman Kane]

PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH.   LILLIAN: A FAIRY TALE.  London:Printed 
for Chas. Knight, Pall Mall East, 1823.  First edition.  Disbound, 
[4], 25 pages.  (His first separate publication in English; previous 
to this he had edited and contributed to "The Etoninan" and published 
2 poems in Latin: "Carmen Graecum Numismate . . ." &
"Epigrammata Numismate."  This copy lacks the advts, as did Tinker's 
copy. The poet's "Advertisement", explaining the origin of the poem, 
appears on p. [3]: "At a small party at Cambridge some malicious 
Belles endeavoured to confound their sonnettering friends, by setting
unintelligible and inexplicable subjects for the exercise of their 
poetic talents," this mock-Arthurian epic being the answer to one such riddle.
A youthful jeu d'esprit in which one can here and there anticipate 
the older poet.)  $195.00

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