LOT 3174
23rd July 2025
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LOT 3174
[TIGHE, Mary.] Mrs. Henry TIGHE. Psyche, With Other Poems. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees et al., 1811. Third edition, 4to (261 x 209mm.) Stipple-engraved oval portrait frontispiece after Romney by Caroline Watson, engraver, 2pp. ‘Notes’ to rear. (Offsetting to title, occasional light spotting.) Contemporary boards (rebacked, extremities rubbed). Note: Mary Tighe’s work was a significant inspiration for the Romantic sensibility in England, and on Keats’ work especially. She died in 1810 and it was this third edition of ‘Psyche’- with the first publication of the additional poems- that established her reputation. Provenance: John Thackeray (bookplate to front pastedown); Christ’s Hospital (presentation plate to front pastedown).
Estimate: £100 – £150
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