Accession number
PML 75145
Creator
Thomson, James, 1834-1882.
Published
London : Reeves and Turner, 1880.
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Lyman Cotten.
Notes
First edition.
"Ballantyne Press. Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co."--Verso of half title.
"Attempts at translation from Heine" (pages [163]-184).
Library's copy has errata leaf detached from book.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 dark blue morocco over cloth slipcase.
"Ballantyne Press. Ballantyne, Hanson, and Co."--Verso of half title.
"Attempts at translation from Heine" (pages [163]-184).
Library's copy has errata leaf detached from book.
Library's copy housed in 1/4 dark blue morocco over cloth slipcase.
Description
184 pages ; 19 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Critical essay by Oliver H.G. Leigh in ink on first 3 flyleaves, titled "Poetry of Jas. Thomson"; annotations in unknown hand in pencil throughout; author's annotations and corrections in ink on pages 1, 34, 48, 52, 60, 84, 99, 117-119, 135, 140, 148, 155, 162, 168, 170, 173, 178, 182, and 184.
Provenance
James Thomson; Oliver H.G. Leigh; bookplate of John Quinn; Lyman A. Cotten
Summary
This unique collection brings back into print some of the lesser known poems of James ('B.V'.) Thomson (1834-82) as well as his acclaimed The City of Dreadful Night. Composed in the later half of the nineteenth-century, many of Thomson's post-Christian poems challenge the securities of Victorian religious comfort and sceptically view the human condition as devoid of connection with any providential sustenance.
Binding
Dark blue-green cloth.
Classification
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