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A new spirit of the age / edited by R. H. Horne ...
London : Smith, Elder and Co., 1844.
2 v. (x, [2], 332 ; [6], 310, 24, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates) : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Both vols with a half-title.
Vol 2 with 13 final advertisement leaves.
Publishers red morocco embossed cloth with lettering stamped in gold on spine.
Scope and content: Vol 1: Charles Dickens -- Lord Ashley and Dr. Southwood Smith -- Thomas Ingoldsby -- Walter Savage Landor -- William and Mary Howitt -- Dr. Pusey -- G. P. R. James, Mrs. Gore, Captain Marryatt, and Mrs. Trollope -- T. N. Talfourd -- R. M. Milnes and Hartley Coleridge -- Sydney Smith, A. Fonblanque, and D. Jerrold -- William Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt. Vol 2: Alfred Tennyson -- T. B. Macaulay -- Thomas Hood and the Late Theodore Hook -- Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Jameson -- Sheridan Knowles and William Macready -- Miss E. B. Barrett and Mrs. Norton -- Banim and the Irish Novelists -- Robert Browning and J. W. Marston -- Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer -- William Harrison Ainsworth -- Mrs. Shelley and Imaginative Romance -- Robert Montgomery -- Thomas Carlyle -- Henry Taylor and The Author of "Festus".
From the Michael Meredith Browning Collection, with bookplate.
Armorial bookplate of Francis Frederick Fox.
Ms. inscription in both vols: "[?]E. K[atherine]. Cockell. from her dear friend, Miss E. B. Barrett [in Katherine Cockell's hand]".
Ms. bookseller's note and price in pencil in vol 1.
Cockell, E. K. (E. Katherine) former owner.
Fox, Francis Frederick former owner.
Meredith, Michael, 1936 - ? former owner.
Smith, Elder & Co. publisher.
England London.
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