Poems on Several Occasions

P O E M S

ON

SEVERAL OCCASIONS

By AUSTIN DOBSON

LONDON

KEGAN, PAUL, TRENCH, TRUENER & CO, LTD

MDCCCXC

DESCRIPTION

Two Volumes

(iv) + 252 + (iv)

(iv) + 251 + (iv)

Books measure 160mm x 105mm approximately.

Beautifully bound in full dark brown grained calf. Spine with five raised bands with title, volume and date in gilt to compartments. Plain end-papers and paste-downs. Tissue-guarded engraving to title page verso of each volume. Top page edges in gilt, remainder uncut.

CONDITION

In very good condition. The bindings are both extremely firm indeed. There are only a few very light surface scratches to boards. Internally the pages are incredibly clean and bright throughout. Just some minor shadowing to end-papers and paste-downs.

Overall, a beautifully bound set of volumes in very good condition.

INTERESTING

Henry Austin Dobson (1840 to 1921), commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was uneventful, but as a poet and biographer he was distinguished. Those who study his work are struck by its maturity. It 1864 he turned his attention to writing original prose and verse, and some of his earliest works were his best. By the autumn of 1873 Dobson had produced enough verse for a volume, and published Vignettes in Rhyme, which quickly went through three editions. During the period of their appearance in the magazine the poems had received unusual attention, George Eliot, among others, encouraging the anonymous author. The little book immediately introduced him to a larger public. After 1885 Dobson was engaged mainly in critical and biographical prose, by which he added considerably to the general knowledge of his favourite 18th century.