London: Longman, et al. 1821
12mo, iv + 214pp. Contemporary half-leather hardcover binding, gilt lettering and tooling to spine, marbled boards. Fold-out map at front, frontispiece and 45 engravings (50 noted on title page).
Thomas Kitson Cromwell (1792–1870) was an English dissenting minister and antiquary. In 1816 he published a small volume of verse, The School-Boy, with other Poems, which was four years later followed by privately printed copies of Honour; or, Arrivals from College: a Comedy. The play had been produced at Drury Lane on 17 April 1819, and was twice repeated,. Oliver Cromwell and his Times, London, 1821 (2nd ed. 1822) was criticised by Thomas Carlyle (Cromwell's Letters and Speeches, 2nd ed. ii. 161 note.) A second drama, The Druid: a Tragedy, 1832, was never acted.
In December 1838 Cromwell became a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and a few years before his death accepted a Ph.D. from the University of Erlangen. Besides contributions to the Gentleman's Magazine, Chambers's Journal, and other periodicals, he supplied the letterpress for James Sargant Storer's Cathedral Churches of Great Britain, 1814–19, and also for Excursions through England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, a series published in numbers, London, from 1818. (wikipedia.com)
Condition: Good-very good. Light rubbing, some edgewear to boards and spine, sections of tape to top edges of boards and spine. Previous owner’s signature to front endpaper. Light foxing to some pages and some of the plates, and light offsetting to pages facing plates. Text and plates overall clean. Well bound.
Reserve: $40
Estimate: $60-80
- Overall Condition: Good-Very Good
- Size: 12mo
