1826 The Life and Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham

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First Edition, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Scarce

First edition. Scarce work. With a frontispiece and illustrated title page. A memoir of Henry Kirke White, an English poet and hymn-writer who died at the young age of twenty-one after his health deteriorated due to tuberculosis. With examples of his literary works, including: To My Lyre; An Ode, To an Early Primrose, The Lullaby of a Female Convict to Her Child, An Ode to the Moon, and To Contemplation, amongst others.