LETTERS AND REMAINS OF ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

Spottiswoode and Co., 1865

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Details

Year of publication

1865

Place of printing

London, "For Private Circulation Only"

Author

Clough

Publishers

Spottiswoode and Co.

Edition

First Edition. NCBEL 111, p.462. 75562. Only 250 copies printed.

Languages

English

First edition

Yes

Description

First Edition. Only 250 copies printed. Edited by the poet's widow, Blanche Smith Clough and inscribed by her at the top of the title-page. 8vo, in the publisher's handsome original textured green cloth, the upper cover with Clough's initials in gilt within a panel made from multiple gilt and black ruled lines with crossing corners, the spine gilt lettered and ruled in gilt and black. A fine fresh copy.

Edizione: presentation copy and one of only 250 copies printed.<br> arthur hugh clough was an english poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to groundbreaking nurse florence nightingale. this volumes contains some previously unpublished poems and a verse play about venice. the poet was close friends with ralph waldo emerson and saw him almost daily during emerson's stay in paris and england. clough was also associated with longfellow, hawthorne and others he met while in america. he traveled to the united states in 1852 in the same ship as thackeray and james russell lowell.