![]() In its original morocco leather binding with gilded, blocked decorations and lettering. Frontispiece with gilded vignette and hand-coloured woodcut. , 103, interspersed with 56 leaves of vignettes, illuminated poetry, hand-coloured woodcuts, woodcuts depicting various flowers and animals, etc. A generally very good copy with the attractive contemporary leather bookplate of one Miss Jeanie Laurence to front pastedown. Extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened, upper corners a little soft, toch of internal soiling and the odd marginal crease. Neatly bound in contemporary straight-grained red morocco, all edges gilt, gilt lettering & decoration, marbled endpapers. BL, Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, National Maritime Museum, Harvard, New York Public Library copies only. ![]() 'Trafalgar', in heroic couplets, occupies the first 147 pages of the volume, and is succeeeded by 'An Elegy on the Death of Lord Nelson', 'An Epitaph on the Death of Lord Nelson', and two other short pieces - 'The Orphan's Lament' and 'The Tears of Britain - A Song'. §First line: "When nations break the bonds of happy peace". This book later ended up in the collection of Thomas Thornton Reed, sometime Anglican Archbishop of Adelaide it carries his signature and his Dean of Adelaide stamp. ![]() This no doubt hastened his death on 8 December that year. He amassed an enormous collection of books, but also a crushing amount of debt, and in 1895 he was forced to sell his library of 13,000 volumes. George Augustus Sala (1828-1895), the 'Prince of Journalists', spent nine months in Australia in 1885 his lasting legacy from that trip was coining the phrase 'Marvellous Melbourne' some six weeks before he received this token from Holdsworth. This copy is inscribed in ink on the verso of the title page 'To | George Augustus Sala | From the author. Contemporary half calf and stippled cloth (with the stamp of Ramage, London), all edges gilt leather a little rubbed at the extremities (more heavily so at the corners, which are worn through to the boards) a very good copy (internally fine).
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