Author: MARTYR STUDENT.
Title: The Portfolio of the Martyr=Student.
Description: London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green..., 1830. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 178 x 104 mms., pp. xxi [xxii blank], 191 [192 blank, 193 colophon leaf, 194 blank], uncut, original cloth spine, green boards, paper label (soiled); binding a bit soiled, spine and joints rather carelessly repaired, but a goodish copy, with the bookplate of Percival F. Hinton on the front paste-down end-paper, with an inscription on the top margin of the recto of the front free end-paper, "John [?Piper]? box on Mandero/ with/ [illegible; preceding transcription not guaranteed]," and on the verso of that leaf, "Miss J. Parkinson/ From her affectionate friend/ Elizabeth Ann Bradford/ 1st July 1843." The papers of the journalist and local historian Percival Frank Hinton (1896-c1977) are held at the University of Birmingham. The Monthly Review in 1830 noticed this work along with several others: "The author...tells a romantic tale of the manner in which he came by the poems he now publishes. The writer of them, he would have us believe, was a German youth of intense poetical feeling, who, upon his removal to university, was so ambitious of distinguishing himself in his pursuits that he fell a martyr to them. This, of course, is a fiction..., [but] it may not be denied that they merit a high rank in the scale of minor poetry."

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