The Prose Remains, Henry Kirke White

Name: The Prose Remains, Henry Kirke White
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Publication: London, Jones & Company, 1831

Formatting: 16mo, pp. N/A.

Condition Report: Very Good. The book is bound in early nineteenth-century blind-stamped brown cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. The binding remains remarkably tight and secure, a notable attribute for early publishers' cloth of this period. The spine cloth is moderately faded and toned, exhibiting minor bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners, though the blind-embossed floral tooling on the boards remains crisp and well-defined. Internally, the hinges are solid. The plain endpapers bear a factual nineteenth-century pencil ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. The title page and preceding blank show moderate foxing and offsetting, likely corresponding to a missing or previously adjacent frontispiece portrait. The internal text block is otherwise quite clean, maintaining a solid structure with only occasional, minor spotting throughout. A highly respectable, well-preserved antiquarian survivor.

Catalogue Note: An early nineteenth-century printing of the prose works of Henry Kirke White, published in London by Jones & Company in 1831 and printed in Glasgow by Hutchison & Brookman. Henry Kirke White (1785–1806) was an English poet and essayist who achieved significant posthumous fame following his untimely death from tuberculosis, largely due to the editorial efforts of Robert Southey. This volume, containing his letters, essays, and melancholy reflections, forms part of Jones & Company's series of accessible classic reprints.

The book is preserved in a contemporary blind-stamped cloth publisher's binding, highly characteristic of early 1830s production methods when cloth was just beginning to supplant paper boards as the standard trade binding. While various collections of Kirke White's poetical and prose works were issued in the early to mid-nineteenth century, this specific 1831 standalone Jones & Company edition of his Prose Remains appears scarce on the current open market, especially retaining its original unsophisticated cloth binding.

A handsome 1831 edition of The Prose Remains of Henry Kirke White, containing a posthumous collection of the young Nottingham author's letters, essays, and reflections. Though he died at just twenty-one years old, Kirke White left behind a poignant literary legacy championed by figures such as Robert Southey and Lord Byron, cementing his reputation as a tragic figure of the early Romantic period. This volume offers a profound glimpse into his intellectual and spiritual life through his correspondence and musings, preserved in an attractive, early blind-stamped publisher's binding.

Book Condition: Very Good

Book Authors: Henry Kirke White

Book Publisher: Jones & Company

Book Language: English

Narrative Type: Non-Fiction

Genre: Criticism & Essays

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Book Publication Year: 1831

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Book Binding: Hardcover

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Country/region of manufacture: London, United Kingdom

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