1853 Remains of Verse and Prose of Arthur Henry Hallam

Description

Scarce

Privately published copy.

Bound by Holloway.

A selection of the works in verse and prose of Arthur Henry Hallam, published posthumously. 

This work is divided into sections of stanzas and sonnets and includes titles such as 'To An English Lady' and 'To The Loved One.'

Illustrated with a frontispiece.

Arthur Henry Hallam attended Eton school and had close ties to another fellow poet Alfred Tennyson.

After his sudden death at the age of twenty-two, his close friends and family gathered together a collection of Arthur's writing which is published posthumously.

Collated and complete.

Prior owner's ink inscription to the half-title, 'M. P. W. Boulton Esq, my pleasing copy of this Hallam (?), J.M., January 1856'. Boulton was a classicist and inventor, known for inventing aileron.