
Price: $99.94
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Book Condition: Very Good
x, 404 pages; Former owner's name on ffep and a few lines in pencil quoting Allingham's poem "The Fairies", otherwise clean and tight in original navy blue cloth binding with bright gilt lettering at spine. Upper corners rounded, portrait frontispiece. William Allingham, a writer and poet born in Donegal, Ireland, became sub-editor of Frazer's Magazine in 1870. In early 1874 he assumed the position of editor from Froude, and later that year married Helen Patterson, the watercolour painter. Allingham was a close friend of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who contributed to the illustration of his book Day and Night Songs. In this diary he records his lively encounters with Tennyson, Carlyle, Darwin, Dickens and many other writers and artists.
Title: WILLIAM ALLINGHAM - A Diary
Categories: Literature, Signed and Association Copies, European History, Biography and Autobiography,
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1907
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Size: 8vo
Seller ID: 39758
Keywords: Moncure Conway Literary Biography Literary History London Literary Circles Pre-Raphaelites James Anthony Froude