Hobart-Hampden, Lucy Pauline Wright. The Palace of the King, and other religious poems. New York: Anson D. F. Randolph & Company, 1880. First Edition. [11850]
Terracotta cloth with bright gilt & black decoration, clean, tight, 6 x 4 inches, all page edges gilt. 174 clean pp. with index of first lines. First few pages with light foxing, rest clean. Very good. Hardcover.
Some of the authors included are Margaret E. Sangster, Eva Travers, Josephine Pollard, Frances Ridley Havergal, Father Ryan, Rev. Edward Bickersted, W. O. Stoddard, Phoebe Cary, Horatius Bonar, and Lady Liston Fowlis.
"Compiled by the editor of The Changed Cross...&c."
Selections gathered from religious newspapers and magazines. Attributed to Lucy Pauline Wright Hobart-Hampden, English poet who married Captain Charles Edward Hobart-Hampden in 1863. She died in 1913 and was the compiler of several poetic and devotional books.
A bright, clean, near-perfect copy.
