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Reynolds, Frederic Mansel (editor). THE KEEPSAKE FOR MDCCCXXX [1830]. London: Published for the Proprietor, by Hurst, Chance, and Co., 65 St. Paul's Churchyard, and R. Jennings, 62, Cheapside, [1829]. Octavo, pp. [i-iii] iv-v [vi] vii [viii] [1] 2-352, flyleaves at front and rear, eighteen inserted plates, including the presentation plate, vignette title and frontispiece, publisher's red moiré silk cloth, spine panel stamped in gold, a.e.g., red coated endpapers. First edition. The noteworthy third volume of this long-running series of annual keepsakes. Includes "A Dialogue for the Year 2130, Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl," by Thomas Henry Lister (writing as "The Author of Granby"), pp. 249-264, which Sargent describes as "satire on technology and colonialism. A future Britain with deep class divisions. Overeducated poor. Written as a play." Additionally, the annual includes three stories by Mary Shelley ("The Mourner, a Tale," "The Evil Eye, a Tale" and "The False Rhyme, a Tale") as well as contributions by Sir Walter Scott ("The House of Aspen, a Tragedy"), James Morier, Lord Byron ("Letters to Several Friends"), Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Banim ("The Hall of the Castle, a Tale") and others. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Faxon 1491. Wolff 7806c. Cloth worn at spine ends, corner tips and along outer joints, crown of spine chipped, a sound, good copy with fine interior and fine plates. (#174222).

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