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BROWN, Oliver Madox- (1855-74). The Dwale Bluth, Hebditch's Legacy and other Literary Remains, edited by William Michael Rossetti and Francis Hueffer. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1876. 2 volumes, 8°, etched frontispiece portraits after Ford Madox Brown (severe dampstaining to lower margin of frontispiece and text in vol. II). Original brown cloth (faded, inner hinges split). PRESENTATION COPY, frontispiece verso in vol. I inscribed, "From the author's Father."
INGRAM, John H. Oliver Madox Brown. A Biographical Sketch. 1855-1874. London: Elliot Stock, 1883. 8°, frontispiece portrait and 3 autotype plates (slight spotting). Original cloth (corners bumped, slight bubbling on rear cover).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of Brown's Remains. Oliver Madox Brown was the youngest child and only son of the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Ford Madox Brown (1821-93), from his second marriage to Emma Hill, and the brother of Ford Madox Hueffer's mother, Catherine. Widely considered a prodigy, his death from blood poisoning at the age of nineteen devastated his father, who always kept a spare room of Oliver's possessions wherever he lived. As well as the title stories, the 1876 collection includes 'The Yeth-Hounds', based on a Devon legend about phantom huntsmen, and 'The Last Story', dictated on the author's deathbed. The collection was edited by Ford Madox Hueffer's father, Francis, and Oliver's other brother-in-law, W. M. Rossetti. Oliver's only other substantial work of fiction, the novel Gabriel Denver, was published by Smith, Elder in 1873. Both books are described by Wolff as "rare". Wolff I, 880. (3)
INGRAM, John H. Oliver Madox Brown. A Biographical Sketch. 1855-1874. London: Elliot Stock, 1883. 8°, frontispiece portrait and 3 autotype plates (slight spotting). Original cloth (corners bumped, slight bubbling on rear cover).
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of Brown's Remains. Oliver Madox Brown was the youngest child and only son of the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Ford Madox Brown (1821-93), from his second marriage to Emma Hill, and the brother of Ford Madox Hueffer's mother, Catherine. Widely considered a prodigy, his death from blood poisoning at the age of nineteen devastated his father, who always kept a spare room of Oliver's possessions wherever he lived. As well as the title stories, the 1876 collection includes 'The Yeth-Hounds', based on a Devon legend about phantom huntsmen, and 'The Last Story', dictated on the author's deathbed. The collection was edited by Ford Madox Hueffer's father, Francis, and Oliver's other brother-in-law, W. M. Rossetti. Oliver's only other substantial work of fiction, the novel Gabriel Denver, was published by Smith, Elder in 1873. Both books are described by Wolff as "rare". Wolff I, 880. (3)
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