Essays

Prose pieces by the poet best remembered for light verse - on schooldays, on epitaphs, on the manners of the age. Praed was a Cambridge prodigy and a member of parliament who died at thirty-six. This edition adds an introduction and preface, and binds in 58 plates of paintings by Thomas Rowlandson, Sydney Prior Hall, John Collier and others, dating from 1532 to 1925.