Queries on rare books and poets in a 19th century exchange
A reader asks for the value of a 1792 Whiston Josephus edition from Durell and related rare texts. Other inquiries seek values of a 1791 Collins Bible, Saint Francis de Sales Philothea, Lady Mary Montagu works, Benson Sheaves, and a Galeni Opera Omnia edition. Additional questions request publisher details for works by Grace Greenwood, Theodore Tilton poems, and identification of poems by Schiller and Symons.
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Samuel C. Dunn
Flavius Josephus
William Durell
Queen Street
William Whiston
Whiston
Moses
Temple of
Jerusalem
Palestine
Brooklyn
Philothea
Saint Francis of Sales
Geneva
Dublin
James Duffy
Wellington Quay
W. A. Atkinson
Lady Mary Montagu
London
Richard Phillips
St. Paul’s Church Yard
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
James Dallaway
H. M
Henry Fielding
New York
William Durell & Co
Thomas Scott
Hartford
Sheldon & Goodrich
Simeon L. Loomis
Scott
Cardinal,Newman
Anston Santos
John Pucct
Hieronymum Scotum
Venice
Andrea Lacuna
Laguna
Charles V
Flanders
Metz
Rome
Galen
Hippocrates
Claudius Galen
Pergamum
Mysia
Hieronimo Scotto
Greece
John Thorold
Answers from Readers on Browning and Verses Notes
Readers discuss Browning’s At the Mermaid and Everyman translations, with references to Spitta’s Parting and Lyra Domestica. They review editions, authors, and related poets, and offer alerts on first printings and reprints for sought texts.
Readers seek sources for poems and lines in old cemetery verses
Letters request authors and locations for lines from various poems and tombstone inscriptions. Questions cover a tomb inscription about a hero, near work lines about helping, a 17th century quotation on dust and mind, a royal friendship poem, Cedars and Salem lines, Sir Edwin Arnold’s The Passage of Mohammed, The Battle of Busaco, a line about thunder and lightning, and a misattributed Joaquin Miller fragment.
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St. Augustine
Fra
Edwin Arnold
Mohammed
Harper's
Scribner's
P. W. Latham
Joaquin Miler
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Inquirer
A. K. Stern
Isaac Collins
Trenton
Philip Weaver
Germantown
McKee
E. P
Hanks
Abraham Lincoln
John C. Winston Company
Arch Street
Philadelphia
Nancy Hanks Lincoln
Lincoln
H. Butterworth
Nancy Hanks
C. H. Hitchcock
McClure Company
G. F
K. F. Benson
Doubleday, Page & Co
East Sixteenth Street
Edward Frederic Benson
Mra. W. B. K
Persia
Theodore Tilton
Newman
Zoellner
Johann Carl Fredrich Zéllner
Gerlin
Leipsic
Leipsic University
Berlin
England
Wates
J. M. W. Turner
R. A
Charles Heath
H. E. Lloyd
Longham, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans
Paternoster Row
John White
Brentford
Turner
Browell
England and Wales
John Lees
Wales
J. M. Parker
Grace Greenwood
Leander Lippincott
Sarah Jane Clarke
Pompey
N. Y
Thaddeus
Deborah Clarke
Leander K. Lippincott
Washington
Europe
Chicago
California
Bonnie
Scotland
Ireland
France
Italy
Victoria Queen of
IL. P. R
Theodore L. Cuyler
The
Nile
Norway
Iit
Cuyler
South Oxford Street
E. E
Louis O'Shaughnessy
Cincinnati Enquirer
Father Miles
Aladdin's Palace
Emmitsburg
Jong #ince
Mount St. Mary's College
Maryland
W. F. Bigelow
Tennyson
Lilia
J.C. Maule
Schiller
Zephyr
Asane
Peare
P. L
Arthur Symons
William Ramsay
Robert Browning
Carrie Gilman
Richard Garnett
Edmund Gosse
Macmillan Company
Bishop’ Percy
Samson
Milton
Barlaam
Josaphat
Petrus Dorlandus
Paradise
Cc. E. T
C. J. P. Spitta
Spitta
Ticknor & Fields
Boston
Merle Johnson
Edwin A. Abbey
Atlanta Constitution
Frank L. Stanton
Paull
Minna E
New Jersey
Times
A. D.J
Eoe
Mount St. Mary’s College
EB W. Willcox
Cedars
Lebanon
Judah
Salem
Busaco
Busaro
Granger