Froissart Ballads and Other Poems

by Field’S Copy, Philip Pendleton Cooke

$125 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

First edition · Signed

Philadelphia, PA : Carey and Hart, 1847. First edition. 12mo. 216 pp. Cooke 1816-1850 , of the prominent Cooke family of Virginia, was a lawyer and poet, brother of John Esten Cooke. Eugene Field’s copy, inscribed by him on the front endpaper “Eugene Field - / London, Jan. 1, 1890 - / Charing Cross Road -” Field spent parts of late 1889 and early 1890 in London . Engraved armorial bookplate of John Thompson Fitz Adam on front pastedown,

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