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No date, but circa 1920 per OCLC, 'privately printed' (NY), 4 5/8 x 7 1/8 inches tall paperbound in yellow wraps with slightly ypped edges and a printed paper title label to front coveryellow endpapers, 45 pp. Mild to moderate soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. Scarce; OCLC (No. 18591353) locates only five copies at institutions worldwide, all five distinguished collections - Cambridge University, the University of Vermont in Burlington, New York's famed Grolier Club, Chicago's Newberry Library and the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. ~SP42~ A selection about Christmas from an 1863 book, Dreamthorp, by Alexander Smith (1829 - 1867), a Scottish essayist and poet, labelled as one of the Spasmodic School. Around 1861, Smith had turned from poetry to prose. He became a frequent contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, Macmillan's, and Alexander Strahan's Good Words, producing work that was personal, characterized by a distinctive persona. French Renaissance philosopher and essayist Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592) was Smith's inspiration and model for many of these pieces and in particular for the book this pamphlet excerpts, Dreamthorp: a Book of Essays Written in the Country, published by Strahan in 1863. One of the themes that runs through the individual essays in Dreamthorp is an understanding that human finiteness contributes to our awareness of joy and beauty in the everyday. Seller Inventory # SP42-1051-4571
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