{"product_id":"the-note-books-and-papers-of-gerard-manley-hopkins-gerard-manley-hopkins","title":"The Note-Books and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Note-Books and Papers of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins — First Edition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London \u0026amp; New York, Oxford University Press, 1937\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e 8vo, pp. xxxvi, 474.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Fair. The original navy blue cloth binding is heavily compromised, exhibiting noticeable bumping and rubbing to the extremities, alongside patchy fading, pale damp-staining, and general dulling across both boards. The spine, which bears a gilt institutional shelf mark (928 218 HOP), is darkened and bruised at the head and tail. Internally, the structural integrity is severely weakened by a deeply cracked front inner hinge that exposes the underlying mull, leaving the frontispiece and title page precariously loose. While the text block itself remains relatively clean with only mild, scattered spotting and age-toning to the page peripheries, the ex-library interventions and fragile binding designate this squarely as a reading or reference copy rather than a collector's showpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e First edition. Edited with comprehensive notes and a preface by Humphry House, this volume represents a pivotal moment in Hopkins scholarship, publishing his journals and papers in full for the first time. The text is complemented by frontispiece artwork reproducing Hopkins’s own 1862 drawing, 'Dandelion, Hemlock and Ivy'. While true first editions of this posthumous archive are somewhat uncommon on the open market, this particular copy functions primarily as a working text, bearing the gilt-stamped spine markings typical of a retired institutional holding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA crucial volume for enthusiasts of Victorian poetry and literary history, this collection unveils the inner life and creative processes of Gerard Manley Hopkins, one of the era’s most innovative and fiercely private minds. Edited by Humphry House, these early notebooks, sermons, lecture notes, and personal journals map Hopkins's profound spiritual struggles, his conversion to Catholicism, and the evolution of his unique aesthetic philosophies. Richly detailed and intensely personal, the papers offer an intimate glimpse into the brilliant intellect behind some of the nineteenth century's most striking verse.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54494557143379,"sku":"4910","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260730_230151.jpg?v=1785929701","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/the-note-books-and-papers-of-gerard-manley-hopkins-gerard-manley-hopkins","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}