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Lot 32
[Hogg (James)] The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, first edition, original boards, the John Sparrow copy, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
Hammer Price: £6,200
Description
[Hogg (James)] The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, first edition, engraved facsimile letter frontispiece, some very light marginal soiling but a very clean copy generally, book label of John Sparrow to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, rebacked, retaining much of (chipped and browned) backstrip, covers rubbed, uncut, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1824:50; Sadleir 1198; Tymn 1-165; not in Wolff], 8vo Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
⁂ The John Sparrow copy in boards of Hogg's gothic masterpiece.
"Hogg's theme of the disintegration of the self paved the way for the mature Gothics of Poe and Hawthorne in the 1830s" - Tymn.
Description
[Hogg (James)] The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, first edition, engraved facsimile letter frontispiece, some very light marginal soiling but a very clean copy generally, book label of John Sparrow to front pastedown, original cloth-backed boards, rebacked, retaining much of (chipped and browned) backstrip, covers rubbed, uncut, preserved in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, [Garside, Raven and Schowerling 1824:50; Sadleir 1198; Tymn 1-165; not in Wolff], 8vo Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824.
⁂ The John Sparrow copy in boards of Hogg's gothic masterpiece.
"Hogg's theme of the disintegration of the self paved the way for the mature Gothics of Poe and Hawthorne in the 1830s" - Tymn.
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