Many Thoughts Of Many Minds: Selections From The Writings Of The Most Celebrated Authors From The Earliest To The Present Time.
Compiled And Analytically Arranged By Henry Southgate
Published by Charles Griffin And Company: London 1874
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Henry Southgate (1818-1888), anthologist, born in 1818, a native of London, entered his father's business, and from 1840 to 1866 carried on his practice as an auctioneer of prints and engravings at 22 Fleet Street. The firm was known as Southgate & Barrett until about 1860 (when the partnership was dissolved), after which Southgate's affairs became gradually involved. In the meantime he had made a considerable reputation as a compiler of selections in prose and verse from English classics. He moved about 1870 to South Devon, where he resided at Salcombe, and afterwards at Sidmouth; thence he moved to Ramsgate, where he died on 5 Dec. 1888.
His works comprise: 1. ‘Many Thoughts of Many Things, being a Treasury of Reference … analytically arranged,' London, 1857, 4to; the third edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged under the altered title ‘
Many Thoughts of Many Minds' (1861, 8vo), had a great circulation, and has frequently been reprinted.
The first edition was denounced by the ‘Athenæum' (1857, p. 1550) as ‘an enormous book, an enormous blunder;' but, along with Bartlett's ‘Familiar Quotations,' it has established a reputation as one of the best compilations of the kind."
General wear and fading to cover and spine as shown. There are no inscriptions or evidence of prior ownership. Inside front blank endpaper loose with rest of book well bound. Rear endpaper has a tear as shown - could be reglued as required. Some light foxing to a few pages with the vast majority of the book very clean. A nice copy overall. Please study photos to understand condition. Happy to provide more photos on request.
