Thelwall john author (3 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. **HARDBACK** In unclipped dustjacket.

Paperback. Condición: Brand New. 100 pages. 7.44x0.21x9.69 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

4pp., 4to. On two loose leaves of Whatman paper, each watermarked 1827. Very good, on lightly-aged paper. The document begins with the following note, dated and signed by Roby: 'The following ballad from my forthcoming "Traditions of Lancashire," though not of much value in itself, may yet acquire some, from its connexion with, and introduction into Mrs. Thelwall's elegant volume of Scraps.' (The implication that the two leaves have been removed from Mrs Thelwall's album is supported by pagination from 12 to 15.) Sixty-four lines, divided into sixteen four-line stanzas. This version only differs in one instance from that published two years later in Roby's 'Traditions of Lancashire': the fifty-seventh line in the published version - 'The moon looks bright on Rudolph's towers,' reads, in this version, 'The moon looks bright o'er Speke's grey towers,'. The recipient is more likely to be the wife of John Thelwall, than that of his son Algernon Sydney Thelwall, Georgiana Ann (née Tahourdin).…