[Rarebooks] For Sale: Thos. Lovell Beddoes, Poems, 1851, 1st 1-vol. edn.

[Norman Kane]

BEDDOES, THOMAS LOVELL.   POEMS BY THE LATE THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES, 
AUTHOR OF DEATH'S JEST-BOOK OR THE FOOL'S TRAGEDY, WITH A 
MEMOIR.   London: Wm. Pickering, 1851.  First 1-volume 
edition.  Small octavo, original cloth, ends of spine chipped, label 
eroded, [iii]-cxxxiv, 288 pages.  No leaves before title page, 
manuscript comment tipped in at rear end paper regarding the manner 
of Beddoes' death and the disposition of his manuscripts.  Bookplate 
of Sir George W. Prothero (historian, editor, author - see DNB.)
The lengthy Memoir is by T. F. Kelsall.   BEDDOES BOOKS ARE QUITE 
SCARCE.  $300.00                                         (Trade 
Discount Available)


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