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New-York: Charles Wells, & Co., 1843. Hardcover. Good. Black leather, elaborately blind-stamped with a vignette of a lion catching a stag in the center of both covers, "Moore's Melodies" in gilt to the spine, all page edges gilt, 4 1/4 x 2 3/4 inches, tight. Waxed yellow end papers. Steel-engraved frontispiece by Hinshelwood of a man in a mountain setting, lacking tissue guard. Title page is printed in red & black. xv., 260 pages of verse, words only (no music). Moderate foxing throughout. The majority of these verses pertain to Ireland and the Irish, but not every one. The first entry is A Canadian Boat Song, written on the River St. Lawrence.Thomas Moore (1779-1852), b. Dublin, Ireland; d. Wiltshire, England. A poet, Moore was known as the "Irish Bard" during his lifetime. His "acclaim rested primarily on the popularity of his Irish Melodies...old Irish tunes verses that spoke to a narrative of Irish dispossession, loss, and resistance. With his romantic work Lalla Rookh (1817), in…
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