Cabinet Card. 1890s.
by Hovey (Richard)
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- Seller
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Sidney, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
A Cabinet Card / Cabinet Photograph of poet Richard Hovey, ca. 1890s. This is a photo of Hovey mounted on a stiff card measuring 4.25 x 6.5 inches. Photographer is M.J. Steffens, Chicago. Small stain to lower corner, not affecting image, very good condition. Written in pen on the reverse, in an unknown hand: "Richard Hovey the poet." Hovey was a romantic poet of the late 19th century, who collaborated with Bliss Carman. He appears in this photo in a decorative doorway. Hovey, who fancied himself an American Oscar Wilde, was a lecturer on aesthetics, and an English professor.
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- Bookseller
- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 54786
- Title
- Cabinet Card. 1890s.
- Author
- Hovey (Richard)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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About the Seller
William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Biblio member since 2004
Sidney, British Columbia
About William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
Established 1976. Open shop in Victoria BC, Open Wed-Sun 11-5. Specialists in weird, fantastic, supernatural,utopian, interplanetary, science fiction and lost race fiction; also rare books, literary first editions, poetry broadsides. Antiquarian maps, charts, views, prints, engravings.