Compton (Spencer Joshua Alwyne, Lord Northampton), editor. The Tribute: A Collection of Miscellaneous Unpublished Poems, by Various Authors, first edition, list of subscribers, errata f., presentation inscription "with the Editor's Compts." to front free endpaper, name "Henry Thompson" above in a different hand, same endpaper with contemporary ownership inscription of C ?Coleridge to verso dated 1880, some spotting, slight browning to margins, bound in red morocco by Morrell, slight discolouration to spine, corners quite worn, rubbed, John Murray, 1837 § Knight (Henry Gally) Eastern Sketches, in Verse, third edition, lacking half-title, John Murray, 1830, bound with Hannibal in Bithynia. A Dramatic Poem, third edition, without final advertisement f., John Murray, 1839, together 2 works in 1 vol., presentation inscription "from the Author" to head of both titles, bookplate of Sir Archibald Edmonstone of Duntreath, A.L.s from the Author to "Sir Archibald" trimmed and laid down in 2 parts to front free endpaper (some loss of text), dated March 11. 1831, some light spotting, mainly to first and last few leaves, 19th century calf, spine gilt but lacking label, spotting, rubbed; and others 19th century, most poetry, 8vo (16)
⁂ The first mentioned including works by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Southey, Thomas Moore, Louisa Costello and others. Henry Thompson is among the authors included (see p.421).
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