Hatton, (George James Finch, Earl of Winchilsea and)

Voices Through Many Years

London Marcus Ward & Co 1879 Photographs of the author at various ages pasted in as a frontispiece in each volume. First Edition. 3 volumes. 8vo. [223 x 137 x 80 mm]. vi, [ii], 208 pp; vii, [i], 239, [1] pp; vii, [i], 240 pp. Bound in the original vellum over boards with yapp edges, the covers blocked in blind with the title, smooth spines blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, marbled endleaves, uncut. (A little stained). "Printed for Private Circulation only", on heavy uncut paper and bound in decorated vellum with yapp edges - this is a very expensive way of circulating one's poetry. Volume 1 is inscribed: "Cadogan Mansions, Sloane Square. This copy is corrected by the author Winchilsea and Nottingham July 13 1885". There are photographs of the author pasted at the front of each volume, in vol.1 he is shown in 1858 (the year in which he succeeded to the earldom), in vol.2 we see him as Viscount Maidstone in 1840, and the image in vol.3 is dated 1878. George James Finch-Hatton (1815-1887), 11th Earl of Winchilsea and Earl of Nottingham was educated at Eton and Oxford, after which he served as Conservative M.P. for North Northamptonshire from 1837 to 1841. These poems are the products of forty years of musing. He was inspired by his travels in Europe, he celebrated his passion for racing, and politics remained a preoccupation. He here offers up "Free-Trade Hexameters", "Anti-Corn-Law Lyrics", "Fenianana", "Gladstoniana" and "Grevilliana", along with "Ballads of the Crimean War", which follow on from his translations from Horace and "Passages from the Poem of the Book of Job", not forgetting such weighty matters as his remarks on the contents of "Punch", which he no longer found amusing.

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