Poems
New York : Harper & Brothers, 1840
post 8vo.,
calf, gilt edges
, sixth edition
with vignette by R. W. Weir
1
English
15s.
S016.4; V04.17; C012.01; SAl07411-66
C4
Library, bookcase (C5), item 06
private collection
Presentation copy; inscribed, 'Charles Dickens, Esq., with the sincere regards of Richd. H. Dana.'
Sold by Sotheby's for £4000, 13 December 2007. See https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2007/english-literature-history-childrens-books-and-illustrations-l07411/lot.66.html?locale=en
contemporary calf, from the library of charles dickens inscribed to him on front free endpaper ("Charles Dickens Esq. | with the sincere regards | of Richd. H.l Dana."), with dickens's bookplate and book-label ("From the Library of Charles Dickens, Gadshill Place, June, 1870"), additional engraved title, contemporary calf gilt, all edges gilt, upper cover detached, missing lower portion of spine, endpapers discoloured
Catalogue note: The poet and essayist Richard Henry Dana, Sr (1787-1879), son of the Revolutionary patriot and Chief Justice of Massachusetts Francis Dana, met and was captivated with Dickens during the novelist's American tour in 1842. He spoke at the dinner held in Dickens's honour on 1 February of that year. Dana was a close friend of the writer and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), then one of America's leading poets, whose own Democratic principles allied him with the sympathies he saw demonstrated in Dicken's works. He later supported Dickens over international copyright. This gift of Bryant's Poems is recorded by both Dana's letter to Dickens of 3 February 1842 ("...Pray do me the kindness to take home with you this copy of my friend Bryant's Poems...You have heard of our Autumn Woods; & Bryant, as you may remember, has beautifully sung them here...": letter formerly in the Gimbel Collection, now at Yale, quoted in The Pilgrim Edition of the Collected Letters, vol. 3, p. 49) and also by Dickens's response of the next day ("My Dear Sir. I thank you most heartily...for the copy of Bryant's Poems...I assure you that I shall prize it very highly for your sake...": op.cit., p.49). According to Dana, her daughter slipped some autumn leaves into the volume, and one of these is still present.
Loosely inserted in Bryant's Poems is a letter by Kathleen Tillotson, one of the General Editors of the Pilgrim Edition, to John Pym.
Catalogue note: The poet and essayist Richard Henry Dana, Sr (1787-1879), son of the Revolutionary patriot and Chief Justice of Massachusetts Francis Dana, met and was captivated with Dickens during the novelist's American tour in 1842. He spoke at the dinner held in Dickens's honour on 1 February of that year. Dana was a close friend of the writer and journalist William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878), then one of America's leading poets, whose own Democratic principles allied him with the sympathies he saw demonstrated in Dicken's works. He later supported Dickens over international copyright. This gift of Bryant's Poems is recorded by both Dana's letter to Dickens of 3 February 1842 ("...Pray do me the kindness to take home with you this copy of my friend Bryant's Poems...You have heard of our Autumn Woods; & Bryant, as you may remember, has beautifully sung them here...": letter formerly in the Gimbel Collection, now at Yale, quoted in The Pilgrim Edition of the Collected Letters, vol. 3, p. 49) and also by Dickens's response of the next day ("My Dear Sir. I thank you most heartily...for the copy of Bryant's Poems...I assure you that I shall prize it very highly for your sake...": op.cit., p.49). According to Dana, her daughter slipped some autumn leaves into the volume, and one of these is still present.
Loosely inserted in Bryant's Poems is a letter by Kathleen Tillotson, one of the General Editors of the Pilgrim Edition, to John Pym.
Publication date given as 1836 by Sotheby's and 1840 (6th ed.) by Stonehouse, CD Junior's Catalogue and Pilgrim Letters, vol. 3, p. 49