Book - Songs of the Affections
Hemans, Felicia. Songs of the Affections, with other poems ... Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. 1831.
1831 (Date published)
Hemans, Felicia. Songs of the Affections, with other poems ... Philadelphia: Carey & Lea. 1831.
12mo (174 x 115mm), pp. 267, [1], with 4 pp. of adverts in the front, and 4 pp. of adverts in the back. Bound in original (publisher's?) quarter cloth and boards, with printed paper label to spine. Bookseller's ink stamp to front free endpaper recto ("Sold by Richards & Ganahl, No. 293 Broad St. Augusta (GA.)"), with early ink ownership inscription below ("Dan.Hand Augusta Geo"). Slightly ownership label, written in ink, to front pastedown ("From the library of Daniel Hand. E.S. Platt 1831)". Modern bookplate of MHS to front pastedown.
From Daniel Hand's personal collection, this copy of Felicia Hemans' Songs of the Affections was purchased by him during his time in Augusta, Georgia, and later found its way into the collection of Elizabeth Skinner Platt, also a noted Madison, CT resident.
Felicia Hemans was a celebrated late-Romantic poet who would have been widely read in England and America when Daniel Hand was a young man, though she was later eclipsed in the 19th-and 20th-centuries by her male contemporaries, such as Wordsworth and Byron. Happily, this copy has survived in what is probably its original publisher's binding, complete with advertisements in the front and back for other upcoming and recently published Carey & Lea publications. Together with Hemans' text, it paints a picture of what was being read and consumed by the American public at this time.
12mo (174 x 115mm), pp. 267, [1], with 4 pp. of adverts in the front, and 4 pp. of adverts in the back. Bound in original (publisher's?) quarter cloth and boards, with printed paper label to spine. Bookseller's ink stamp to front free endpaper recto ("Sold by Richards & Ganahl, No. 293 Broad St. Augusta (GA.)"), with early ink ownership inscription below ("Dan.Hand Augusta Geo"). Slightly ownership label, written in ink, to front pastedown ("From the library of Daniel Hand. E.S. Platt 1831)". Modern bookplate of MHS to front pastedown.
From Daniel Hand's personal collection, this copy of Felicia Hemans' Songs of the Affections was purchased by him during his time in Augusta, Georgia, and later found its way into the collection of Elizabeth Skinner Platt, also a noted Madison, CT resident.
Felicia Hemans was a celebrated late-Romantic poet who would have been widely read in England and America when Daniel Hand was a young man, though she was later eclipsed in the 19th-and 20th-centuries by her male contemporaries, such as Wordsworth and Byron. Happily, this copy has survived in what is probably its original publisher's binding, complete with advertisements in the front and back for other upcoming and recently published Carey & Lea publications. Together with Hemans' text, it paints a picture of what was being read and consumed by the American public at this time.
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