![COOK, Eliza (1818-1889) -- BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). The Poetical Works. London: Joseph Smith, 1830. 2 volumes in one, 16° (134 x 71mm). Engraved portrait and frontispiece. (vol. II wanting A1, [?]title). Contemporary cloth with paper spine label, 20th-century morocco-backed case. Provenance: Eliza Cook's copy with her signature on front pastedown and autograph 4-stanza poem on Burns on facing endpaper -- purchased from James F. Drake, New York, 16 December 1941, $40. Egerer 332.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2004/CKS/2004_CKS_06973_0167_000(073653).jpg?w=1)
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COOK, Eliza (1818-1889) -- BURNS, Robert (1759-1796). The Poetical Works. London: Joseph Smith, 1830. 2 volumes in one, 16° (134 x 71mm). Engraved portrait and frontispiece. (vol. II wanting A1, [?]title). Contemporary cloth with paper spine label, 20th-century morocco-backed case. Provenance: Eliza Cook's copy with her signature on front pastedown and autograph 4-stanza poem on Burns on facing endpaper -- purchased from James F. Drake, New York, 16 December 1941, $40. Egerer 332.
COOK, Eliza. Five autograph poems signed, London, Ingress Abbey and n.p. (3), n.d., together 302 lines of verse, 9 pages, 8vo, 2 pages, 4to and 4 pages, folio; and three autograph letters signed, to Mr Atreed, Tonbridge, 26 August 1853, to the Revd. Charles Bathurst Woodman, Ingress Abbey, 11 October n.y., and to an unidentified correspondent, London, 16 November 1848, 6 pages, 8vo, and 3 pages, 4to (spotted, remains of guards and traces of former mounting, one letter splitting in folds).
The poems include: 'I'm a Devil!' [1867], 5 pages, 8vo, stitched in a wrapper with autograph title and contemporary endorsement; 'Stanzas', inscribed to John Watkins, a mournful poem opening 'I look on the chestnut blossoms As it points to the cloudless sky', 4 pages, 8vo; 'Love', one page, folio; 'Old Pincher', opening 'When I gave to old Dobbin his song and his due Apollo I feared would look scornfully blue', 3 pages, folio; and 'Those I left behind', 2 pages, 4to.
The first letter enquires about a house for sale; the second expresses appreciation of some lines sent to her, mentioning her health, 'I pursue the "Cold Water System" ... indeed have done so from Childhood' and the last looks forward to a collaboration: 'I am chiefly anxious to have a good supply of copy beforehand - matter that will be generally acceptable to all classes. I put much faith in you my dear friend ... may we some day drink a glass of nectar on the Anniversary of our Journal's birth'. Eliza Cook, who was largely self-educated, edited her Journal for Family Reading from 1849-1854, when poor health forced her retirement. A prolific writer of sentimental and often melancholy verse, usually on domestic themes, her work appealed to contemporary popular taste.
COOK, Eliza. Five autograph poems signed, London, Ingress Abbey and n.p. (3), n.d., together 302 lines of verse, 9 pages, 8vo, 2 pages, 4to and 4 pages, folio; and three autograph letters signed, to Mr Atreed, Tonbridge, 26 August 1853, to the Revd. Charles Bathurst Woodman, Ingress Abbey, 11 October n.y., and to an unidentified correspondent, London, 16 November 1848, 6 pages, 8vo, and 3 pages, 4to (spotted, remains of guards and traces of former mounting, one letter splitting in folds).
The poems include: 'I'm a Devil!' [1867], 5 pages, 8vo, stitched in a wrapper with autograph title and contemporary endorsement; 'Stanzas', inscribed to John Watkins, a mournful poem opening 'I look on the chestnut blossoms As it points to the cloudless sky', 4 pages, 8vo; 'Love', one page, folio; 'Old Pincher', opening 'When I gave to old Dobbin his song and his due Apollo I feared would look scornfully blue', 3 pages, folio; and 'Those I left behind', 2 pages, 4to.
The first letter enquires about a house for sale; the second expresses appreciation of some lines sent to her, mentioning her health, 'I pursue the "Cold Water System" ... indeed have done so from Childhood' and the last looks forward to a collaboration: 'I am chiefly anxious to have a good supply of copy beforehand - matter that will be generally acceptable to all classes. I put much faith in you my dear friend ... may we some day drink a glass of nectar on the Anniversary of our Journal's birth'. Eliza Cook, who was largely self-educated, edited her Journal for Family Reading from 1849-1854, when poor health forced her retirement. A prolific writer of sentimental and often melancholy verse, usually on domestic themes, her work appealed to contemporary popular taste.
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