John Wilson — Poems

Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1825. First edition. Leather. A new and complete edition of the poems of the Edinburgh Romantic poet John Wilson, bound in full decorative contemporary calf. A new edition of Poems, the scarce anthology of a complete collection by the prolific Edinburgh poet and scholar John Wilson. Complete in two volumes. In full decorative contemporary calf, with glit decoration to spines, and raised bands. Contains purple marble end papers, and without half-titles as issued. A friend of Wordsworth and Coleridge, Wilson contributed to the latter's journal The Friend and was inspired by the pair to become a talented Romantic poet. While a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Wilson was a regular contributor to the Edinburgh Magazine, published by his close friend William Blackwood. - Volume I: Contains the Isle of Palms, The City of the Plague and The Convict. - Volume II: Contains his miscelleanous poems and sonnets, most of which belong to the Isle of Palms and The City of the Plague anthologies. In full decorative contemporary calf, with glit decoration to spines, and raised bands. Contains purple marble end papers, and without half-titles as issued. Externally, mostly smart, with the odd faint fading mark and scratch to boards. Slight fading and wear to spines, with missing spine labels. Rubbing to edges, and knocks to the heads and tails of the spines, and to the extremities. Small lift to calf to I head of spine and II tail of spine. Marble end papers are bright and clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and mostly clean, with faint spots to first couple and final leaves. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .