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Child, C.W.J. [Coles William John Child (1813-1873)].

[Manuscript Original Poetry]. Poetical Works.

[n.p, England, likely London or Kent]. [n.d., circa 1827-33]. Lovely manuscript volume of amateur poetry in a single, neat, readable hand, bound in full vellum. The poems are dated between 1827-33, making Child a teenager of fourteen when the first poem was written (though the paper is watermarked.....

Price: $700.00

Fettes, James.

[Unrecorded]. Zuleika, the Christian’s Bride; a Ballad: and The Dream, a Poem . . .

Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Henry Gibb, Liberator Office, 1840. First Edition. First edition. Provincially published work of poetry by a Chartist-affiliated publisher, when Fettes was 21 and a student at the University of Edinburgh, it was apparently his first work as the comparatively lengthy introduction (which spans 1/7th of the entire volume) notes.....

Price: $400.00

Meli, Giovanni; Barker, W. W., trans.

[Sumptuously Bound English Manuscript Translation of Sicilian Poetry]. The Courteous Fairy and the World. Two Poems of the Late John Meli in the Sicilian Dialect with biographical notes by the Abbe Contreras on the Author; and the Notes in the Second edition of His Works, to the Poem of The World. Freely Translated into English Verse by W. W. Barker.

Messina: 1815 to 1834. An unpublished manuscript English translation of Sicilian poet Giovanni Meli’s La Fata Galanti (The Courteous Fairy, 1762). Meli (1740-1815) was a physician and poet who wrote in his native dialect of Palermo and promoted and collected Sicilian literature. The Courteous Fairy, a satirical poem in.....

Price: $1,800.00

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