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"A Very Limited Number Printed"

BRYDGES, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON.

Human Fate, and An Address to the Poets Wordsworth & Southey: Poems. By the Late . . . Now First Printed (Verbatim) from the Author's Mss . . .

Place and Imprint: Great Totham: Printed at Charles Clark's Private Press, 1846.
Edition: First edition, one of "A Very Limited Number Printed."
Bibliographical References: NCBEL III, 1271; Jisc records copies at Glasgow, Oxford, Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin.
Condition: Stitching gone; leaves loose, but all in all a very good copy.
Book ID: 28987

Physical Description

8vo, modern plain wrappers, 19 pages, printed on the rectos only.

Comments

At 880 lines, Human Fate is a long poem by Sir Edgerton Brydges and a somewhat bitter poetical narrative on the toughness and unfairness of life, in which Brydges does not appear to be complaining about his own fate, but rather that of his fellow man who was not born with advantages. The second poem celebrates the genius and virtue of Wordsworth and Southey. The two poems were apparently written fairly late in Brydges' life (1762-1837) and were unpublished until they were found by printer Charles Clark, who printed the two together in a "very limited number" on his private press. He reprinted them again in 1848 and 1850, and all three are equally scarce.

Price: $450.00