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A new Spirit of the age

Title: A new Spirit of the age / edited by R.H. Horne, author of "Orion," "Gregory VII.," &c. &c.
Publication: London : Smith, Elder and Co. ..., 1844.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Pforz (Horne, R.H./New) 1844	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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2 v. (ix, [3], 332, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates; [6], 310, 24, [2] p., [4] leaves of plates : ports.; 21 cm. (8vo)

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"Edited (and largely written) by Horne."--NCBEL.
"Written with Elizabeth Barrett (later Elizabeth Barrett Browning) and others ..." --Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. (under Horne, Richard Henry)
Title page of vol. II of copy in the Rare Books Division of the New York Public Library has ms. annotation by Thomas Powell: "Projected and first written by Thomas Powell; altered, corrected and [edited by R.H. Horne] ..."
Written in the manner of Hazlitt's Spirit of the age (1825).
Erratum slip: Vol. II, preceding half-title.
Publisher's advertisements: Vol. I, p. [333]; vol. II: p. 1-24 (last group).
Illustrations: 8 prints : steel engraving ; full-page. By Armytage, after Gillies and Lawrence (i.e. Laurence).

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Contents

Vol. I: Charles Dickens -- Lord Ashley and Dr. Southwood Smith -- Thomas Ingoldsby -- Walter Savage Landor -- William and Mary Howitt -- Dr. Pusey -- G.P.R. James, Mrs. Gore, Captain Maryatt, and Mrs. Trollope -- T.N. Talfourd -- R.M. Milnes and Hartley Coleridge -- Sydney Smith, A. Fonblanque, and D. Jerrold -- William Wordsworth and Leigh Hunt.
Vol. II: Alfred Tennyson -- T.B. Macaulay -- Thomas Hood and the late Theodore Hook -- Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Jameson -- Miss E.B. Barrett and Mrs. Norton -- Banim and the Irish novelists -- Robert Browning and J.W. Marston -- Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer -- William Harrison Ainsworth -- Mrs. Shelley and imaginative romance -- Robert Montgomery -- Thomas Carlyle -- Henry Taylor and the author of "Festus."

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Pforz (Horne, R.H./New) 1844

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Title

A new Spirit of the age / edited by R.H. Horne, author of "Orion," "Gregory VII.," &c. &c.

Imprint

London : Smith, Elder and Co. ..., 1844.

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NCBEL, v.3, p. 525

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Binding: Original red cloth.

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Added Author

Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861.

Powell, Thomas, 1809-1887. Attributed name

Armytage, James Charles, 1802-1897. Engraver

Gillies, Margaret, 1803-1887. Artist

Laurence, Samuel, 1812-1884. Artist

Research Call Number

Pforz (Horne, R.H./New) 1844