The Soul’s Journey : a metrical fantasy

A$1,900 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

/ by Nathaniel Hailes . Adelaide : Printed by Hussey, Shawyer, and Gall, King William Street, 1856. Octavo (200 x 130 mm), later half cloth over moire silk (upper board with a few small marks), publisher s printed blue wrappers bound in, pp. [4], 31; lower wrapper with publisher s advertisement: Shortly will be published (or as soon as Two Hundred copies shall have been subscribed for) Poems on Australian Subjects; including Narrative and Descriptive pieces, Parodies, Epigrams, and Other Facetiae by Nathaniel Hailes , although it seems this work never saw the light of day; paper browned, occasional underlining in pencil, otherwise clean throughout and a very good copy. This rare Adelaide imprint is the first and only edition of a verse drama by London-born journalist Nathaniel Hailes. As explained by the author in his Prefatory Note , the work was actually written in 1844 while he was employed as a secretary to the Government Resident at Port Lincoln, and is reactionary in nature: it attacks an immature flirtation with infidelity by two pre-eminent English poets , Hailes using the voices of a newly-created immortal soul and its attendant seraphim to articulate his ideas. Hailes had arrived at Holdfast Bay in March 1839 as superintendent of emigrants to South Australia on the Buckinghamshire . He settled with his wife, Eliza and their three children in North Adelaide, and soon co-founded a real estate auction company, Hailes Peek. In late 1841 his attempt at publishing an inde

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