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London: Chatto & Windus, 1890. A New Edition. Very Good. A very good copy with maroon leather spine on marbled paper boards and gilt titles on spine Slight corner bumping and edge wear Front endpaper beginning, but binding is still tight and sound Slight random foxing but no other marks or damage at all Thomas Hood (1799 â€" 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt" Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works Hood, never robust, had lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45 William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him "the finest English poet" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson 323 pp.