The deity. A poem. In twelve books.
London.
Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1834.
Second edition.
8vo.
[5], viii-xix, [5], 330pp. Without half-title. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled paper boards, contrasting green morocco lettering-piece. Lightly rubbed. Scattered spotting. Armroial bookplate of Stoneleigh Abbey and recent book-label of J. O. Edwards to FEP. William St Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencilled ownership inscription and manuscript note to recto of FFEP.
The second edition of Thomas Ragg's (1808–1881) Deity, a poem in 12 books designed as testimony from an infidel transformed by Christianity.
William St Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004).
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref: 32288
William St Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004).
