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Philadelphia: Printed by R. Rhodes., 1823. Hardcover. Good. Paper covered boards. Front cover with the title and decorative border. The paper has mostly worn from the spine, the front cover loosening but secure, handle with a little care. The text is complete, bright and tidy internally, light toning and marking, the page edges are uncut. Pages; (2), VI, 100. Original owners 1823 signature on the endpaper (Thomas George Bond, East Street, Red Lion Square, London). Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

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1823. MOORE, Thomas. THE LOVES OF THE ANGELS, A POEM. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, And Brown, 1823. 8vo., recent white boards with title lable on spine. Ink name of Charles W. Pearce, Professor of Organ and Composition at Trinity College, on a front blank page, along with some other writing in another hand. Very Good (contents clean & tight with bit of scattered foxing; original endpapers present). $85.00.

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown 1823, 1823. First edition. 8vo (222x135mm). pp. x, 148. Olive-brown straight grained morocco, ruled in blind and gilt to the covers with rococo devices in gilt. Spine with raised bands and compartments, decorated and lettered in gilt. All edges gilt. Bookplate of Charles George Milnes Gaskell to front pastedown. This is a lovely copy in a beautiful binding. This is Moore's final, long-form poetic work. It is said to have been an amalgam of rabbinical and old folk tales, and describes three fallen angels who find themselves falling in love with human women. The moral essence of the poem is its focus on the moral decline of the soul.

Philadelphia: Printed by R. Rhodes, 1823. vi, 100pp. With a half-title. Uncut in original publisher's printed buff boards. Housed in recent black cloth slipcase. Extremities worn and marked, surface loss to boards. Contemporary inked ownership inscription of Alfred Newman to recto of FFEP, scattered spotting. The first American edition, in original unsophisticated state, of poet Thomas Moore's (1779-1852) sensual dramatic verse. . First American edition. 12mo.

London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1823. First edition, 8vo, pp. [5], viii-x, 148, [2] ads; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; joints cracked and chipped, the binding shaken; a good copy at best. Having returned from his exile in France in 1823, Moore completed The Loves of the Angels, "his last long poem, interconnected confessional narratives about three angels who fall in love with mortal women and become caught in mortality themselves. Although the tension between the spiritual and the explicitly sensual is resolved in accord with the morality of Moore's time, the theme of angels desiring physical union shocked orthodox Christians and caused enough stir to guarantee sales. Moore accommodated his critics in the fifth edition of the book (1823) by turning his Christian angels into Moslem angels, adding bookish footnotes to explain and support the Levantine substance. The poem is redeemed by the separation… Read More

Baltimore.Published by F. Lucas, Jr. and J. Robinson; J. Robinson & Co. FrederickMd. 1823. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 24mo. 13.5cm, the First U.S. Edition, [iv].105pp., notes, inthe original quarter red roan backed marbled boards, gilt spine title &single panel rules, contemporary owner's annotation dated 1829 on frontfree fly, fine, rare. (ids). ~ A very scarce American edition publishedthe same year as the English first. The Baltimore publisher andcartographer, Fielding Lucas (1781-1854), was noted for publishing mapsand catholica. The book contains Moore's preface .".I found that myfriend Lord Byron had, by accidental coincidence, chosen the same subjectfor a drama .I thought it best to publish my humble sketchimmediately.