Author: Hood, Thomas [1799 - 1845]. Rigden, Martha - Prior owner
Title: MEMORIALS Of THOMAS HOOD. In Two Volumes Collected, Arranged and Edited by his Daughter with a Preface and Notes by his Son.
Description: London: Edward Moxon & Co. Dover Street, 1860. 1st edition. Gilt-decorated half-vellum bindings with marbled paper boards, black leather spine labels. Marbled edges. Pale yellow eps. 2 volumes (xx, 343, [1]. Illustrated with copies from his own sketches. Vol I with frontispiece of a facsimile mss sheet. 8vo. 7-1/2" x 4-3/4" Hood a minor 19th century literary luminary and close friend of Dickens during his early career (Hood died in 1845). "I have the greates tenderness for the memory of Hood, as I had for himself." So spoke Dickens, as quoted in Shore's "CD and His Friends.". VG (spines a bit sun-tanned/bookplate ["Miss Rigden"]/usual bit of light foxing).

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