In Remembrance. Selected Verses and Essays. CLARK (John Aubrey).

INTER-GENERATIONAL FAMILY COPY

Written from 1839 to 1889.

Frontispiece photographic portrait.

First Edition. 8vo. [207 x 134 x 41 mm]. xiii, [v], 351 pp. Bound in the original green cloth, lettered in gilt on the front cover and spine, plain endleaves, uncut edges. (Slight rubbing to front joint).
[London] Printed [by Headley Brothers] for Private Circulation, 1897.

A fine copy. Library Hub locates copies at the British Library, University of Bristol and Society of Friends. WorldCat adds seven more, at Virginia Tech, Morningside University, Concordia College, Dallas Theological Seminary, University of Alberta, University of California and National Library of Australia.

John Aubrey Clark (1826-1890) was the son of Cyrus Clark (1801-1866), the co-founder of the family shoemakers based at Street in Somerset, and his wife, Sarah Bull, to whom this edition is dedicated. The Preface is signed E.A.C., who was presumably a Clark, and explains that many of the poems relate directly to Street.

There are two neat ink inscriptions: "To Stephen and Marianna Clark, Christmas 1958 from R. & S. B. C." [Roger and Sarah Bancroft Clark] and "It belonged to Mary Bright Curry & came at her death from Cumberland Lodge, Bathwick Hill, Bath". Mary Bright Curry was the daughter of the Liberal politician John Bright and his second wife Elizabeth Leatham. In 1866 her elder half-sister, Helen Priestman Bright, married William Stephens Clark, the nephew of Cyrus Clark.

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