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The Complete Works of THOMAS HOOD, Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse. Edited with Notes by His Son. London, Edward Moxon, 1862, complete in 7-volumes.

Together with:

The Memorials of Thomas Hood. Edited by his Daughter with a preface by his son. (Biography of Hood).

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING of the Memorials. Ticknor & Fields, London, 1860. Complete in 2-volumes.

PUBLISHER'S COPY of the Memorials: The title pages of the Memorials bear a round "Editor's Copy T & F" stamp (T & F for Ticknor and Fields, the publisher of this set).

The Memorials of Hood is essentially an autobiography fashioned out of his papers by his children, Thomas Hood Jr. and Frances Freeling Broderip. Included are many important letters, details of his publications, uncollected poems, etc., as well as information on his relationships with other writers of the period, including Charles Dickens. With a frontispiece in each volume (one a folding facsimile plate).

Very good throughout. Hinges all sound. Some external tide marks on one volume not affecting text. Early armorial bookplate. A clean fresh set of Hood. No smell and no mustiness. Bound in contemporary, probably original, quality moroccan leather. Top edges gilded. Marbled endpapers. Printed on quality paper. 7 3/8 inches.

Complete Works in 7 volumes + 2 volumes Memorials. Therefore: 9-volumes total.

A rare and important collection of Hood's Works + Life.

These will be well padded for shipping.

 

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In 1821, John Scott, the editor of the London Magazine, was killed in a duel, and the periodical passed into the hands of some friends of Hood, who proposed to make him sub-editor.

His installation into this post at once introduced him to the literary society of the time where he met such notable writers of the Romantic epoch as essayists Thomas de Quincey, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt, as well as the poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and John Clare.

With his brother-in-law, John Hamilton Reynolds, he collaborated on the popular Odes and Addresses to a Great People (1825), and subsequently published in his on right both series of Whims and Oddities (1826-27), which contain his unique 'picture-puns' and the proletarian comic poems "Faithless Nelly Gray" and "The Ballad of Sally Brown and Ben the Carpenter."

From 1828 he was a regular contributor to the Athenaeum, edited by James Silk Buckingham. As editor of The Gem in 1829 he published some of Lord Tennyson's early poems, and founded The Comic Annual (1830-42).

Financial reversal as a publisher compelled Hood to live in Koblenz and Ostend from 1835, but in 1840 he returned and began writing for The New Monthly Magazine, of which he became editor in 1841. In 1844, he founded Hood's Monthly Magazine, which his son continued publishing for three years after his death. His Whimsicalities (1844) was illustrated by well-known Punch artist John Leech.