Julia Alpinula; with The Captive of Stamboul, and Other Poems. By J. H. Wiffen. Second edition
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green Green, Printer
Published: [ca. 1827-1833]
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">pp. x, [4], 237, [2]. Signatures: [A]6 B-L12. ‘Second Edition’, but in fact a reissue of the orginal sheets, with a cancel title page, or the original edition printed for John Warren (London, 1820). Original bi-colored boards, uncut.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Longman’s, who had published Wiffin’s earlier collection Aonian Hours in 1819, may have shared Julia Alpinula with Warren, or simply purchased the remaining sheets from him: their own imprint here is in the form used from 1827 to 1837, but the (strictly original) publishers’s binding is much later, like the ‘remainder issue’ of some of of Thomas Love Peacock’s novels. Despite glowing reviews, the book was clearly a slow seller: another undated Longman’s version (again, the same 1820 sheets) is known, without ‘Second Edition’ on the title, and there is a modern reprint (Garland Press) with a brief biographical introduction by Donald Reiman. </span><font face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;">The work is advertised in Longman’s edition of Wiffen’s ‘Historical Memoirs of the House of Russell,’ 1833. </span></font><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"> See A. Freeman, Julia Alpinula, pseudo-Heroine of Helvetia. How a Forged Renaissance Epitaph Fostered a National Myth. London, 2015, p. 4, 8, 17-18.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991042160319707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>