Author: Harper, George McLean
Title: Dreams and Memories
Description: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1922. 1922. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1922. 1922. Good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER - Octavo, maroon cloth titled in gilt. The binding is bumped & lightly rubbed. The spine is faded with the gilt titling completely faded on the spine & partially faded on the front cover. vii & 193 pages. The pastedowns are foxed & the front endpaper is darkened. The bottom page corners in the first half of the book are bumped. Good.

First edition.

Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "To Day Edgar / Princeton, Mar. 27, 1922 / George McLean Harper." Day Edgar was subsequently the author of "In Princeton Town" [1929].

George McLean Harper [1863-1947] was a leading Wordsworth scholar and a close friend of Woodrow Wilson, to whom he was introduced by Robert Bridges in 1879, and edited a volume of Wilson's addresses in 1918. After graduating from Princeton, he spent several years abroad. Called back to Princeton as instructor in French, he successively became Woodhull Professor of Romance Languages at age 30, Holmes Professor Belles Lettres in the Department of English and the first Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature.

One of the pieces in this book of reflections on his travels in Britain and abroad, "Hawkshead and Dove Cottage", is about Coleridge and William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; MEMOIR; TRAVEL; DREAMS AND MEMORIES; WORDSWORTH SCHOLAR; PRINCETON PROFESSOR; GEORGE MCLEAN HARPER; INSCRIBED; SIGNED; SIGNATURE; AUTOGRAPH; DAY EDGAR; AYRSHIRE; HARDART MORT; HAWKSHEAD; DOVE COTTAGE; WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; DOROTHY WORDSWORTH; SA

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