A New Pilgrimage, and other poems

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, 1889.

Handsomely bound by Zaehensdorf, binding signed. 8vo (180 x 100 mm); pp xiv, 182, (1). Half-title present. A fine copy. Blunt was born at Petworth House in Sussex, home of his aunt's husband Baron Leconfield. He was a cousin of Lord Alfred Douglas. Blunt married Lady Anne Noel, daughter of the Earl of Lovelace and Ada Lovelace, and grand daughter of Lord Byron. They travelled travelled through Spain, Algeria, Egypt, the Syrian Desert, and extensively in the Middle East and India. Based upon pure-blooded Arabian horses they obtained in Egypt and the Nejd, they co-founded Crabbet Arabian Stud. They later bought a property near Cairo named Sheykh Obeyd to house their horses.In 1882, Blunt championed the cause of Urabi Pasha, which led to him being barred from Egypt for four years. Blunt was generally anti-imperialist as a matter of belief. His support for Irish independence led to imprisonment in 1888 for chairing an anti-eviction meeting in County Galway that had been banned by the Chief Secretary, Arthur Balfour.