Essay On English Poetry

London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. leather_bound. Later full maroon morocco. Aeg. Fine. 271 pages. 19 x 12.5 cm. Presentation copy from the Publisher to Honorable Douglas Kinniaird on half title. The Honourable Douglas James William Kinnaird (26 February 1788 – 12 March 1830) was an English banker, politician, friend of Lord Byron and amateur cricketer. Byron’s old friend from Cambridge University, Kinnaird acted as Byron’s banker who acted as his literary agent once the poet left England in 1816. Interior contents very clean and fresh. Raised bands, spine panels decorated in gilt arabesques, lettered in gilt. Decorated cover border panels. (Inventory (truncated) #: 24459)