The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Inscribed by the Author (1840)
Book ID: 69248
Price: €4,500.00
The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Collected by Himself. In Ten Volumes. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1840-1841. Publisher’s green cloth boards, with shamrocks & harp blind embossed covers, gilt decoration & lettered spine. Covers browned & lightly faded, tape repair to hinge of half-title of vol 1. Contents pages throughout in nice bright condition.
Engraved frontispiece and engraved title-page (in addition to letterpress title) with preface & publisher’s advertisments to each volume.
Presentation set, Inscribed by the Author on front free endpaper & half-title of volume one:
“From the Author,” with further inscription on half-title: “To Mrs. Eliza Ann Bernard, not only as the Friend of a very dear friend of mine, but as one who is herself worthy of all admiration and regard, I have great pleasure in presenting this copy of my Poetical Works, April 29th, 1841, Thomas Moore.”
Although Thomas Moore (1779-1852) was an Irish Catholic and the son of a Dublin grocer, he became the fashionable versifier of Regency England. His Irish Melodies, published between 1807 and 1834 with accompanying music (some of the tunes by Moore himself), were an immense success, and for many years his wit, charm, liberalism, and singing voice made him a brilliant figure in literary and social circles, especially among the aristocratic Whig reformers. The same qualities made him one of Byron’s closest friends.
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