Prose, by a poet

[MONTGOMERY, James]

Verlag: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London, 1824

Beschreibung

In two volumes. [3], vi-xvii, [3], 285, [1]; [4], 294pp. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled boards, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, internally clean and crisp. The sole edition of hymn writer and poet James Montgomery's (1771-1854) collected prose; a diverse selection comprised of essays, devotional short stories, and journal extracts, including a narrative of juvenile delinquency in London, a brief life of a flower (told from the perspective of the plant), and a fictional account of a Christian missionary in Africa. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ27711

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Prose, by a poet

Verlag: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1824

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: First edition.