Foxglove Bells: A Book of Sonnets
- SIGNED viii, 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Brussels: J.H. Briard, 1856
Brussels: J.H. Briard, 1856. First edition. viii, 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original red cloth gilt, slightly darkened, blind stamped covers, a.e.g. A nice copy overall. First edition. viii, 72 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Presentation copy inscribed by Westwood "from the author, Feb. 1861", and with a 4-page ALS dated Oct 28 /63 and addressed "Dear Sir" laid in, discussing a proposed bibliography of the Garlands and other angling matters. "I send you with this a rough copy of the skeleton bibliography of the Garlands, praying you to look it over & add, expunge & correct as you may deem expedient ... I will ask Bohn for Chatto's address."
"Westwood produced many poems and published a number of collections but was conscious that they lacked something. In a humorous sonnet entitled 'The Small Poets' he wrote 'Oh for a wizard's sleight ... to turn this swarm of mites into one Mighty!'. However, W. S. Landor remarked that he would have liked to have written Westwood's 'Love in the Alpuxaras'" (DNB). 'The Small Poets' appears on p. 32 of the present work.
Westwood, who knew Charles and Mary Lamb and Wordsworth in his youth, lived in west Flanders (Belgium) for much of his later life, and was a pioneering bibliographer of angling. He published the first of his labors in the same year as this inscription, A New Bibliotheca Piscatoria, quickly followed by the Chronicle of the Compleat Angler in 1863. The Bibliotheca Piscatoria of 1883 was written in collaboration of Thomas Satchell.
A choice association copy.
"Westwood produced many poems and published a number of collections but was conscious that they lacked something. In a humorous sonnet entitled 'The Small Poets' he wrote 'Oh for a wizard's sleight ... to turn this swarm of mites into one Mighty!'. However, W. S. Landor remarked that he would have liked to have written Westwood's 'Love in the Alpuxaras'" (DNB). 'The Small Poets' appears on p. 32 of the present work.
Westwood, who knew Charles and Mary Lamb and Wordsworth in his youth, lived in west Flanders (Belgium) for much of his later life, and was a pioneering bibliographer of angling. He published the first of his labors in the same year as this inscription, A New Bibliotheca Piscatoria, quickly followed by the Chronicle of the Compleat Angler in 1863. The Bibliotheca Piscatoria of 1883 was written in collaboration of Thomas Satchell.
A choice association copy.