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INVENTORY #121536

Talavera. Two Which Are Added, Other Poems

[CROKER, Hon. John Wilson]

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The 9th edition of Talavera is the first to include the additional poems, War Song, Songs of Trafalgar, and To Him Who Despairs Of Spain. Talavera was a British victory under Wellington in the Peninsular War and Croker (1780-1857) an Irish statesman. Wellington, on first reading Croker's poem, is said to have remarked, "I did not think a battle could be turned into anything so entertaining."

Publication Info

  • Publisher: John Murray
  • Edition: Ninth Edition
  • Date Published: 1812
  • Place Published: London
  • ISBN: n/a

Details

  • Condition: Very good
  • Signed: No
  • Dust Jacket: No
  • Jacket Condition: n/a
  • Details:
    [4], 109 p. 28 cm. Engraved frontispiece of bust of Wellington. Half burgundy leather with blue paper boards. Marbled endpapers and matching text block edges. Repairs to spine ends and corners. Foxing to title and frontispiece as well as first and last pages. Thumb mark p. 45.

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