White (Henry Kirk, of Nottingham) & Southey (Robert), Th...

Hammer

£110

White (Henry Kirk, of Nottingham) & Southey (Robert), The Remains, [...] with an Account of His Life, association copy, two volume set, tenth edition, London: Printed for Longman, et al, 1823, engraved portrait frontispiece to volume I, each volume with additional engraved and letterpress title-pages, bound with Wilder (John), Epigrammata numismate annudo dignata, et in curia Cantabrigiensi [...], [Cambridge, 1823], and an ALS of 1pp from The Rev. John Neville White (1782-1845), brother of the minor Romantic poet HKW, presenting the two volumes to Wilder for his 'elegant effort ' (i.e. the [4]pp letterpress Greek and Latin verse bound-in), finely bound in contemporary purple straight-grained morocco, rolled and tooled in blind and gilt, sunned spines, joints rubs and betraying signs of splitting, all edges gilt, green endpapers, 8vo, (2) 

Provenance: 1) Rev. John Neville White (1782-1845), Norfolk clergyman, serving as Perpetual Curate of Great Plumstead when these books were presented to; 2) Rev. John Wilder (1801-1892), fellow of King's College, Cambridge, later Eton beak and Vice-Provost (1885-1892); manuscript presentation letter addressed to him, his slightly later armorial binding, with surpalibros to each cover.