Author: Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Title: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem.
Description: Philadelphia, Anthony Finley, 1812 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first American edition of this important poem from Barbauld, offering a stark criticism of the involvement of Britain in the Napoleonic wars. The very scarce first American edition of this poem from English writer, essayist and poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Taken from the first English edition of the same year.Criticising Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars, the work was received negatively for its pessimistic view of the future, arguing that the influence of Great Britain was waning and the influence of the United States waxing. She believed that Britain's wealth and fame would go to America, leaving England an empty ruin. She tied this decline directly to Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars.Until the 2010s, this work was considered to have ended Barbauld's career due to the vicious reviews it garnered. However recent scholarship has reinstated its role in evincing a typical attitude of Romantic literature.With the bookplate and inscriptions of Peter Corne Dyckman, dated 1815. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with paper label to front board. Significant losses to back strip. Bumping to board perimeters. Ink stain to front board and paper title label. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout and most tender to text block centre. Contemporary inscription to head of title page, and following page. Spotting throughout, with some foxing to final few leaves. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: Napoleonic Wars Anna Laetitia Aiken Romanticism Anna Laetitia Aiken None
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Title: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, a Poem.
Description: Philadelphia, Anthony Finley, 1812 . First edition. Hardback. A very scarce first American edition of this important poem from Barbauld, offering a stark criticism of the involvement of Britain in the Napoleonic wars. The very scarce first American edition of this poem from English writer, essayist and poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Taken from the first English edition of the same year.Criticising Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars, the work was received negatively for its pessimistic view of the future, arguing that the influence of Great Britain was waning and the influence of the United States waxing. She believed that Britain's wealth and fame would go to America, leaving England an empty ruin. She tied this decline directly to Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars.Until the 2010s, this work was considered to have ended Barbauld's career due to the vicious reviews it garnered. However recent scholarship has reinstated its role in evincing a typical attitude of Romantic literature.With the bookplate and inscriptions of Peter Corne Dyckman, dated 1815. In the publisher's original paper covered boards, with paper label to front board. Significant losses to back strip. Bumping to board perimeters. Ink stain to front board and paper title label. Bookplate to front pastedown. Internally, binding lightly strained throughout and most tender to text block centre. Contemporary inscription to head of title page, and following page. Spotting throughout, with some foxing to final few leaves. Good . Ill.: None. Good .
Keywords: Napoleonic Wars Anna Laetitia Aiken Romanticism Anna Laetitia Aiken None
Price: GBP 8900.00 = appr. US$ 12709.07 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 802F8
- Book number: 802F8
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