A Shelf of Old Books.
A SHELF OF OLD BOOKS. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895. First Edition. 8vo, 215. With 54 illustrations including mss facsimiles. Bound in brown gilt-stamped cloth, untrimmed. A very good clean copy. With the ownership signature on the free end paper: "D. J. G. Bromwell | Christmas, 1895" with a three line quote from [S.T.] Coleridge. This is divided intro three sections: Leigh Hunt, Edinburgh and From MIlton to Thackeray. Of Note: tipped in to the front end paper is a fair copy transcription of the 14 line poem "To My Books" by Caroline Norton written in the hand of reformer Caroline Healey Dall. In addition tipped to the rear blanks is a 4 page original essay(of about 650 words) written by Caroline Dall dated June, 1895, titled: " The Mother of James D. Forbes Principal of St. Andrews." The essay narrates the love affair/disappointment of Sir Walter Scott with Williamina Belsches of Fettercairn, who married Scott's friend Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet. [54998] Annie Fields (1834-1915), is cited in most references as an author, biographer, diarist, and literary hostess, wife of publisher James T. Fields and, later, companion to Sarah Orne Jewett. James David Forbes FRS FRSE FGS (20 April 1809 – 31 December 1868)[ was a Scottish physicist and glaciologist who worked extensively on the conduction of heat and seismology. Forbes was a resident of Edinburgh for most of his life, educated at the University and a professor there from 1833 until he became principal of the United College of St. Andrews in 1859. He invented the seismometer in 1842. Biographer, essayist, transcendentalist, lecturer, and woman's rights advocate, Dall (1822-1912) was a participant in Margaret Fuller's Sunday afternoon lectures and an organizer of the Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, MA. in 1855. She was active in the woman's movement for years. In 1844, she married Rev. Charles H. A Dall, only to be separated in 1855. Dall went as a missionary to India and Mrs. Dall went on to author A Woman's Right to Labor, etc.
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