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KNIGHT, Professor W. A: : COLERIDGE AND WORDSWORTH IN THE WEST COUNTRY: Their Friendship, Work, and Surroundings

LONDON.ELKIN MATHEWS,1913.

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UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?),1st edn.VG+. Although an ex public library copy,it was a previously,privately owned book - probably from the founder of the print's own personal library,inscrptn circa 1928,with a personal memorial presentatation dedication+inscrptn:'To A. R. J. Walling recalling the passing of William Turner Brendon Printer 25 July 1928 born 7 March 1845. C.E.Brendon 30 July 1928.' [William Brendon & Son Ltd,were a local (Plymouth) printing firm,founded by William. Turner Brendon.]This is an association copy of the son of the firm's founder,just after the death of same and his own father.Charles Ernest Brendon himself died Aug 9th 1936,aged 60.Book was subsequently acquired by/for the public library (circa 1951) and is now an ex-library copy.Bright,clean,publisher's original green cloth boards with gilt edged border to upper board with bright,crisp,blocked gilt lettering to same,with minimal shelf-wear to edges and slight bumping to all corners.Spine/backsdtrip slightly darkened but lettering still crisp and bright,with a white ink written library number (920) to foot of same.Top edge gilt,fore-edges + base lightly aged - as usual/normal - and all untrimmed; contents bright,tight and clean.B/w pictorial Devon County Council Library Services bookplate pasted to front pastedown along with a taped barcode beneath it,and the bookplate has a green ink 'Withdrawn from Plymouth Library Services' superimposed on it.Black ink, rectangular 'Plymouth Public Libraries' stamp to reverse of title page,with some offsetting, mirroring of same stamp to dedication page.No other library stamps or markings to book.UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued,vii-xvipp+237pp [paginated] includes green,sewn-in silk bookmark ribbon,author preface,contents+illus lists/ tables,12 chapters,3 appendices,18 b/w line illustrations throughout the text and the book, by Edmund H. New; plus [unpaginated] half-title +title pages,b/w line illustrated frntis,a dedication,and printer's name to centre of last page. Described hard,but fairly and honestly.A nice, scarce and uncommon copy,notwithstanding the library marks. Edmund Hort New (1871-1931) born Evesham,Glos, son of a solicitor.Studied at the Birmingham School of Art under E.R. Taylor and A.J. Gaskin.Settled in Oxford.Painter,illustrator, bookplate designer and lecturer in art and architecture.His book illustrations consist of quiet,well-considered and well drawn pen and ink drawings of architectural subjects.Thorpe regarded him as the greatest of the illustrators of the Birmingham School and described him as an 'artist whose work was combined with a strong personal line,the accuracy of the architect's drawing and great decorative charm.' He illustrated many books of topographical interest,and always so truthfully and delightfully as to make one wish to see the places he had drawn.' Elected ARBSA (1909),Hon ARIBA. The two friends,and brother poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge lived with their households in Dorset and Somerset, during part of the years 1795-1798. Wordsworth at Racedown in Dorset,and afterwards at Alfoxden in Somerset and Coleridge at Nether Stowey in the latter county.There they began their immortal poetic work for the world,both as conscious and unconscious co-operators in one of the greatest and most enduring of literary movements that Britain has known,before they left their native land for a short time. Towards the close of 1798 they both visited the continent of Europe,going in different directions and staying at various places. Wordsworth and his sister at Goslar,and Coleridge at Ratzeburg and Gottingen,but they were only absent for a few months. It is, however,to what they accomplished in the years they spent in the south-west corner of England,and also to the generous aid given to them by one or two sympathetic friends,that this small book is devoted. I may add that Chapter I,which deals with the first meeting of Wordsworth and Coleridge,was contributed to The Academy of May 20th,1905 and that Dorothy Wordsworth's Alfoxden Journal was published in the Eversley edition of her brother's works,in the year 1897.Perhaps most readers of this book will be chiefly interested in the record of that marvellous friendship, which began at Racedown and developed at Alfoxden,between William and Dorothy Wordsworth a friendship of brother and sister which has no parallel in the recorded literary history of the world. ***The Plymouth business house of Messrs William Brendon & Son Ltd,printers,also known as the Mayflower Press,were located at Pier Street and West Hoe Road,Plymouth,before the Second World War. Mr William Brendon was born at Lezant in Cornwall in 1820/21.His father was a farmer and in the 1841 Census William was still living on the farm although in later years it was claimed that he started his printing business in Tavistock in 1837 or 38. On May 28th 1844 Mr William Brendon (senior), stationer of Tavistock,married Miss Sarah Turner,youngest daughter of Mr Turner,cork manufacturer of East Stonehouse,at the Eldad Chapel in Plymouth.The Reverend John Hawker presided. In 1845 Sarah gave birth to a son,William Turner Brendon (jnr),in Tavistock.The business was clearly in Tavistock at that time.In 1849 Mr Brendon moved the printing business to Plymouth. At the time of the 1851 Census the family were living at Mulgrave Street,Plymouth,and William was employing three men.He was joined in the business in 1865 by his son and the business became Messrs William Brendon & Son Ltd.Their premises were at 62 George Street,Plymouth. Mr William Turner Brendon (the son) married Miss Fanny M Adams,the eldest daughter of Mr Benjamin Adams,tailor,and his wife Susanna,of Knackersnowle. In the 1881 census,when the Company was employing 37 men,28 boys and 13 girls,the W T Brendon household living in Elm Road,Mannamead, Plymouth,consisted of: George F. W. Brendon,11; Bessie A Brendon,10; William H Brendon,8; Alice M Brendon,6; Charles Ernest Brendon,4 (the book's donor); Richard F Brendon,2 and Fanny M Brendon,9 months.In addition there were a governess,23-year-old Charlotte E Stevens from Saint Budeaux,and two domestic servants,24-year-old Elizabeth Smithson and 19-year-old Anne C Paul. On March 28th 1911 Mrs Heather Brendon,wife of Mr Charles Ernest Brendon,gave birth to twin boys,Robert E H and Charles R. M Brendon.The family were at that time living at Dunheved House in Saltash,Cornwall. William Turner Brendon died at The Anchorage, Grand Parade,Plymouth,on July 25th 1928 at the age of 83 and was succeeded in the business by one his sons,Mr Charles Ernest Brendon.Mr Charles Ernest Brendon died at his home, Rutt, Ivybridge,Devon,on Sunday August 9th 1936 at the age of 60.He was survived by his widow and five sons.He had been very keen on farming and all country sports,especially the Dartmoor Hounds, and was also a member of the Royal Western Yacht Club.An active Conservative Party supporter he was a director of Plymouth Argyle Football Club and deeply interested in the Scouting movement. Mr Brendon was a member of Plymouth City Council representing the Saint Andrew's Ward.His funeral took place at Saint John's Church,Ivybridge,on Wednesday August 12th 1936,followed by cremation at Efford Crematorium,Plymouth. The business ceased when the premises in West Hoe Road,took a direct hit in the air raids of April 1941.All of the standing type for the Stanley Gibbons' stamp catalogues and the entire May edition of their magazine were destroyed. Apparently the only item that survived the blast was the Company's brass name-plate.By June 1941 the firm had relocated to Saint Alban's, Hertfordshire,where they celebrated their centenary the following month. In 1946 a descendant of the family,Mr Robert Edwards Harvey Brendon,purchased another printing business,Messrs Clarke,Doble & Company Ltd and reformed it as Messrs Clarke,Doble & Brendon Ltd,the Oakfield Press. However,the original business,Messrs William Brendon & Son Ltd, was still going in 1956 as the Mayflower Press (Late of Plymouth),at Bushey Mill Lane,Watford,Hertfordshire,where they printed "The Stanley Gibbons Centenary,1856- 1956" for Messrs Stanley Gibbons Ltd.,for whom they had printed the "Gibbons Stamps Monthly" magazine. 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UK,8vo HB,no dw/dj - as issued(?),1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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