THE GARNETT-EDEN COPY, WITH AN ALS
The Unknown Eros and other odes.
London.
George Bell and Sons, 1877.
First edition.
8vo.
x, 128, ix pp, [1]. With a half-title. Original publisher's brown cloth, printed paper lettering -piece to spine. Extremities worn and sunned, spine panel attached at upper joint only. Armorial bookplate of Anthony Eden to FEP, ink ownership inscription of Richard Garnett to head of title, occasional light marginal spotting. With a one-page ALS tipped-in to front blank fly leaf: 'Hastings Sept. 19, 1877. Sir, In reply to your request I beg to say that you are at liberty to print the three odes you mention in your proposed selection, and to affix my name to them, I am, Sir, Yours faithfully, C. Patmore.' The letter's recipient ('Mr D. Adams'), whose identity we have been unable to establish, is added at the foot of the letter.
The first edition of a collection of elegiac odes by Coventry Patmore (1823-1896). It contains compositions charged with erotic mysticism, but also some more autobiographical pieces, including 'A Farewell', inspired by his first wife's illness and death.
Richard Garnett (1805-1906), biographer and poet, who edited Patmore's Florilegium Amantis in 1879.
Sir Anthony Eden (1897-1977), British foreign secretary (1935-38, 1940-45, and 1951-55) and Prime Minister (1955-1957). Following active service in the First World War, Eden read Oriental Languages at Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1923. In 1935 he was appointed foreign secretary, a position he resigned in 1938 to protest Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, he was named secretary of state for war, and later during the Second World War once more served as foreign secretary. Eden succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955. In 1956, his failure to respond effectively during the Suez Crisis, and the subsequent loss of party and public support, ultimately led to his resignation from office in 1957. He was knighted in 1954 and created earl of Avon in 1961.
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Richard Garnett (1805-1906), biographer and poet, who edited Patmore's Florilegium Amantis in 1879.
Sir Anthony Eden (1897-1977), British foreign secretary (1935-38, 1940-45, and 1951-55) and Prime Minister (1955-1957). Following active service in the First World War, Eden read Oriental Languages at Oxford. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1923. In 1935 he was appointed foreign secretary, a position he resigned in 1938 to protest Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s appeasement of Nazi Germany. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, he was named secretary of state for war, and later during the Second World War once more served as foreign secretary. Eden succeeded Churchill as Prime Minister in 1955. In 1956, his failure to respond effectively during the Suez Crisis, and the subsequent loss of party and public support, ultimately led to his resignation from office in 1957. He was knighted in 1954 and created earl of Avon in 1961.
