Poems
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1881. Octavo. Item #028746
Author's household edition. 727 pages. The nostalgic tone, simple style, and natural and domestic scenes of Ingelow's poetry connect it with Wordsworth's. Her lyrics also resonate with those of her Lincolnshire countryman Alfred Tennyson who told her: "Miss Ingelow, I do declare you do the trick better than I do" (DNB). Christina Rossetti wrote to her publisher: "Miss Ingelow would be a formidable rival to most men". An important woman poet. Bound in full tree calf, nicely rebacked with old spine laid down, spine fully gilt decorated (some gilt rubbed off), black morocco spine label and all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, wear through to corners, Internally clean without foxing, names or bookplates.
Price: $85.00