Poet and critic, Palgrave was educated at Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford. He was awarded a fellowship at Exeter College, Oxford, in 1847, and became the vice-principal of Kneller Hall, Twickenham, where he met his close friend Tennyson. Writing as an art critic for the Saturday Review, he laboured as a professor of poetry at Oxford from 1885-95. His publications include lectures, critical essays, and several volumes of original poems (10).
Palgrave, Francis Turner.
The Golden Treasury.
Macmillan, 1890.
4to, 7 x 8 3/4", specially rebound in cream vellum, spine and side elaborately gilt-tooled spine with 4 and sides with 15 inlay rosettes of red leather, pale marbled end-papers, t.e.g., other edges uncut.
Of 500 copies this is No. 278, numbered and signed by Palgrave; it is the only autographed edition ever produced.
Armorial bookplate of Violet Hammersley.
