Author: DALBY (John Watson):
Title: The Death of Aguirre; Ianthe; A Tale, Bodiam Castle; Battle Abbey. Second Edition.
Description: London: Joseph John Leathwick..., 1826. 12mo, 167 x 98 mms., pp. [iv], 68, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (slightly worn), gilt spine, with the bookplate of "Mr. A. F. Courroux./Grosvenor Wharf Wilton Road Pimlico" The Keats library in Hampstead, London, has eight manuscript notebooks of, John Watson Dalby (1799 - 1877) testifying to his association with various Romantic authors. In the one page of the article by Willlis Pratt (cited below) that I was able to access, he is described as "one of those men on the periphery of a great literary movement whose writings, of no literary importance themselves, reveal how the influence of greater men is disseminated into lives they never touched. As a young man Dalby was fired by the democratic idealism of Shelley and Leigh Hunt.... Dalby gives us an exceptionally full account of his endeavors to gather and preserve every living tale he could about the personalities of Shellley and his friend whose writings formed the core of all his thinking." The first edition was published in 1822. See the article by Willis Pratt, "MR. DALBY AND THE ROMANTICS." Studies in English, no. [26], 1947, pp. 90–107. OCLC locates copies of 1822 imprint in Columbia University Library and Thamammsat University in Thailand. Library Hub locates copies of this second edition in the BL and Bodleian. Uncommon.

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