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BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY 1800-1888

1. ADAMS, THOMAS. The Poetical Works of Thomas Adams, Warkworth: consisting of theBattle of Trafalgar, and Some Miscellaneous Pieces. Alnwick: Printed by and for W. Davison,1811. 208pp., sm. 8vo. Fifteen woodcut vignettes often attributed to Thomas Bewick, with the half-title. Slightly later green pebbled morocco gilt, g.e.; attractively rebacked with a gilt spine. $225.00

First and only edition, dedicated to Earl Percy (later the Duke of Northumberland), with whom theauthor was close. In addition to the “Battle of Trafalgar” in two cantos, there are miscellaneouspoems “On the Percy Family,” “On Seeing a Dead Body,” “The Spaniard's Complaint,” and “TheAstrologer’s Soliloquy.” Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 5; Hugo, Bewick Collector, no.266, but not included in Tattersfield’s more recent, and comprehensive, Bewick bibliography.

2. [ANONYMOUS] - Amatory Poems, with Translations and Imitations from Ancient AmatoryAuthors. London: Printed for J. Bell, No. 148, Oxford-Street, 1805. xv, 64pp., sm. 8vo. With thehalf-title. Half red morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, by Philip Dusel. $300.00

First edition, composed and translated when the author - “a native of another hemisphere. . . underthe genial influence of a more southern sun” - was aged sixteen to nineteen. The editor apologizesfor what might be seen as a “too luxuriant fancy,” as can be seen in such titles as “The Dream,”“Sweet Maid, You Oft, When Breast to Breast,” “To Miss ----. With a Note, Claiming a Pair ofGloves, as a Forfeit for a Kiss Stolen While She Was Asleep on a Sofa,” and “When Venus FirstRose from the Ocean.” Five copies in OCLC: British Library, Bodleian, Trinity College Dublin,New York Public Library, and University of Kentucky.

JANE AUSTEN’S CHARADES AND ENIGMAS

3. [ANONYMOUS] - A New Collection of Enigmas, Charades, Transpositions, &c. London:Printed for Longman, Hurts, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster Row; and J. Carpenter, New BondStreet, 1810. [iv], 229, [1], 6pp., 12mo. With the half-title and a terminal six-page publishers’catalogue; minor spotting. An attractive copy, untrimmed in early boards; expertly rebacked witha printed spine label. $275.00

“A New Edition,” following the first of 1806, and containing two of the riddles Jane Austenincluded in Emma:

Kitty, a fair but frozen maid,Kindled a flame I yet deplore. . .

andMy first doth affliction denote,

Which my second was born to endure. . . .Others in the volume include “If a woman were to change her sex, what religion would she be?”(Answer: “A He’-then”). Another, “To hear him, you’d swear he could execute wonders,/ Yet noman alive is so guilty of blunders,” pokes fun at printers.

4. [ANONYMOUS] - The Day of Waterloo. A Poem. With Notes, Illustrating the Principal Eventsof the ever Memorable Battle. Dublin: Printed for the Author by J. Charles, No. 57, Mary-Street,1817. 60pp., 8vo. A real dog of a copy, but intact and readable. The first clue to what befell itcomes from the two inscriptions on the title: “Robt. Nelson, Upper Queen St. School” and, oneither side, “Mary Nelson.” Various scribbles and a little smear of red accompany these, alongwith grubbiness and some slight marginal tears at edges throughout, with a longer tear into thepreface leaf with no loss of paper or text. Contemporary half calf; equally rubbed and worn, witha split in the upper joint. $75.00

First edition, rare, and full of the kind of detailed battle-scenes likely to be read and re-read byschoolchildren. OCLC locates two copies, National Library of Ireland and British Library. COPACadds no more.

5. [ANONYMOUS] - Serenades, Songs, and other Poems. Edinburgh: Printed by John Moir, 1822.47, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Handsomely bound in contemporary black sheep, covers gilt-panelled with awide foliate border, spine gilt, g.e.; a little rubbed. Half-title inscribed “From James White, toJane Gibbon. 29th June 1822.” $275.00

First edition of these unabashedly romantic poems, many of them forthright declarations of love, acouple of them with a twist, as “To a Lady - with some Snuff”:

For where were the use to lament and complainWhen you hold me so under your thumb? -And tho’ every embrace is succeeded by blows,There’s nothing in that I’m displeas’d at;For when first I was ta’en, tho’ you turn’d up your nose,I’m now not a thing to be sneez’d at!

This elegantly-bound copy with its delicately-penned inscription must surely be a gift of affection.Whoever the author was, the book is now very rare, with OCLC recording copies at the Universityof Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, and Chapel Hill.

YORK-PRINTED ROMANTIC ANTHOLOGY, NOT IN COPAC

6. [ANTHOLOGY] - The Bard: a Selection of Poetry. London: Hamilton, Adams, and Co.,; and J.Shillito, York, 1834. xv, [i], 335, [1]pp., 32mo ( (4¼ x 2¾ inches). An attractive copy in what isprobably a deluxe publisher’s binding of purple morocco-grained sheep, stamped in gilt and blind,g.e. $175.00

Apparently the only edition of this rare York-printed anthology, with the colophon stating theprinters to have been Coutas & Co. The work is dedicated to Viscount Morpeth, and the editor’spreface, which notes that the volume does not include “sacred and devotional poetry,” is datedYork, Dec. 10, 1833. One of the poems, “The Use of Tears,” is by the dedicatee; many of theothers are by Romantic poets, greater and lesser. Not in COPAC; OCLC records a copy at Cornelland one other in Belgium.

7. [ANTHOLOGY] - Poetry of the Affections. Selected from the most Esteemed Authors. London:Darton and Clark, 1839. xv, [i], 176pp., 32mo (4½ x 3 inches). Engraved frontispiece andadditional title dated 1839. Nice copy in the original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, g.e.;a little faded. Bookseller’s small inkstamp “May. Evesham” on front pastedown. $75.00

First edition, second issue, with the Darton and Clark rather than the Darton & Co. imprint whichhad the date 1838; the preface, signed “T.H.B.” is dated “Bedford, November 1838.” All but a fewof the poems are nineteenth-century, with several by “L.E.L.” and Mrs. Hemans. OCLC recordsthis issue in a copy at the Lilly Library, and the 1838 issue at Cambridge, Victoria and Albert, andHarvard.

NO COPY RECORDED OUTSIDE ENGLAND

8. [ANTHOLOGY] - The Gift-Book of Poetry; Selected Chiefly from Modern Authors. Edinburgh:John Johnstone, 1843. xii, 204, 16pp., 12mo. Engraved and printed titles, also an engravedfrontispiece by Howison after Stanley. Original straight-grained embossed cloth, upper cover andspine gilt-titled, g.e.; a little wear at spine head. $100.00

First and only edition, rare, with the editor signing the preface “K.” This is a wide-rangingRomantic miscellany with many lesser-known poets, especially women, but also includingWordsworth, Burns, Byron, Crabbe, Shelley, and Southey. Among the women are Mrs. Cottle,Mrs. Hemans, Miss Jewsbury, Miss Landon, Lady Flora Hastings, Caroline Bowles, Mary Howitt,and Mrs. W.W. Duncan. Not in OCLC, and COPAC records only the British Library and Bodleiancopies.

9. [ANTHOLOGY] - The Forget-Me-Not. London and Edinburgh: Thomas Nelson, 1849. 128pp.,32mo (3¾ x 2½ inches). Color-printed frontispiece, with the half-title. A battered copy in theoriginal red cloth stamped in gilt and blind, g.e.; about half the spine missing. $20.00

An early edition of this anthology, mostly poetry with an occasional prose piece, intended,according to the preface, “for the memento of happier times than the solemn hour that seeks for acherished memory of the dying one by surviving friends.” OCLC records an 1847 edition atCambridge and an 1857 edition at NYPL and Toronto Public, not this one.

10. ATHERSTONE, EDWIN. A Midsummer Day’s Dream. A Poem. London: Printed for Baldwin,Cradock, and Joy, 1824. [ii], 173, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and two plates by G.Cooke after J. Martin. Contemporary straight-grained green calf gilt; a bit rubbed. $85.00

First edition, a utopian poem that works its way through the world’s beauties and villanies to aglimpse of Judgment Day, with elegant illustrations (if only there were more) after the John Martinof Paradise Lost fame.

11. BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES. The Angel World, and other Poems. By Philip James Bailey. Authorof “Festus.” London: W. Pickering, 1850. Two copies, each [iii], 111pp., sm. 8vo. Woodcutfrontispiece, and the Pickering anchor device as title vignette, one copy with an additional leaf,“Basil Montagu Pickering’s Publications” loosely inserted at end, the other with an erratum sliptipped in after the title. The former copy in original red, the latter in original green cloth,matching gilt laurel and title on covers, spines gilt, g.e.; some wear and fading to bindings, eachwith ticket “Bound by Bone & Son, 76, Fleet Street, London.” $40.00

First edition of Bailey’s second book, admired by the Pre-Raphaelites. The book is found in variouspublisher’s bindings; here are two examples.

12. BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES. The Mystic and other Poems. London: Chapman and Hall, 1855.154, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title. Nice copy in the original blind-patterned blue cloth, spinegilt; just a trace of rubbing to extremities. $50.00

First edition by, as the title states, “the author of “Festus.”

13. [BARON WILSON, MARGARET]. Melancholy Hours. A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems.London: Printed for John Richardson, Royal Exchange, 1816. xi, [i], 186, [2]pp., sm. 8vo. With thehalf-title and a terminal leaf of errata; one or two minor spots. A fresh and attractive copy inbrown morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, by Philip Dusel. $450.00

First edition of the author’s first book, published when she was nineteen. At the time ofpublication she was Margaret Harries; she married Cornwell Baron Wilson, a lawyer, in 1819. Shenotes that one of the longest poems in this volume, “Zelia, a Tale,” although it

may be thought to bear some faint resemblance to one of those Poems which haveso justly called forth the admiration of the world, the Author cannot even besuspected of plagiarism, when it is stated, that the piece was written in 1812.

Among other poems and songs is a rather good “Imitation of Lord Byron,” “To Rosa, on her killinga Bee,” and “Written in the Novel of Waverley.” Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 21, no.1. OCLC locates four copies in the U.S.A., at Huntington, Lilly, Oakland University, and UCLA.

PRESENTATION COPY, BEAUTIFULLY BOUND

14. BIRD, JAMES. The Vale of Slaughden, a Poem, in Five Cantos. Halesworth: Printedand Sold by T. Tippell, 1819. xvi, [ii], 116pp., 8vo. With the half-title and a list of subscribers,including “T.S. Gooch, Esq. M.P. Bramfield Hall.” Elegantly bound, presumably for theauthor’s presentation, in full rose calf, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, spine fully gilt withdouble morocco labels; a couple of minor spots and traces of rubbing, but a lovely copy.Ownership inscription “Thomas Sherlock Gooch” on front free endpaper, and a laternineteenth-century bookplate of Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch on the pastedown. $425.00First edition of a poem set in ninth-century East Anglia when, as the author notes, “there wasanciently an immense forest,” long since cut down. This was the author’s first appearance in print,and clearly this elaborate binding was produced for presentation to the local M.P., Thomas SherlockGooch. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 81 (that copy evidently without the subscribers’ list).

15. [BISHOP, MARY]. Poetic Tales and Miscellanies. Liverpool: Printed by James Smith;sold by William Robinson, Castle-Street, 1812. [ii], 137, [2], 142-151, [3]pp., 8vo. Jump inpagination as in all copies (due, I suspect, to the single leaf of “Notes” at the end being printedas part of gathering “T”). A nice large copy, bound with two other works (William RobertSpencer’s Poems, 1811, and Maria Montolieu’s Enchanted Plants, 1800, both first editions), incontemporary flame calf; neatly rebacked with a gilt spine label. $400.00First edition, with a verse preface explaining the poems, e.g.

In Oswald’s tale she aimed to showWhat evils from the passions flow. . . .

The tale of Albert deals with the Swiss repulse of an invading Austrian army in 1388. Jackson,Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 30, no. 1(a); Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 83, not notingthe jump in pagination, and nor does the UCLA catalogue entry for their copy (which has the jump,as can be seen in its digitization on Google Books). OCLC gives five other locations in NorthAmerica: Alberta, Georgia, Lilly, New York Public, and North Carolina.

16. BLAKE, WILLIAM. Songs of Innocence and Experience with other Poems by W Blake.London: Basil Montagu Pickering, 196 Piccadilly, 1866. xii, 108pp., sm. 8vo. Woodcut vignettesthroughout, with some early manuscript notes in pencil; small stain from a pressed flower on pp.98-99. Original marbled boards, printed paper spine label; worn, label partly chipped. $60.00

An important early edition of Blake’s most famous text. As the preface notes, this edition is thefirst true reprint of Blake’s 1789 and 1794 editions, unlike the 1839 edition which is unfaithful toBlake’s original printings. In addition to Songs of Innocence and Experience it includesmiscellaneous poems copied from Blake’s manuscripts, two of which are printed here for the firsttime.

17. [BLELOCH, ARCHIBALD]. Kosmogonia. A Glance at the Old World in which are set forthcertain Missing Links of the Darwinian Chain.By Lake-Elbe. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone,1878. [vii], 71, [1]pp., 4to. Frontispiece, titlevignette, and a number of caricatureillustrations, including one of Darwin as amonkey, confronted by a large and grinning dog,with a terminal page of publishers’advertisements. Nice copy in the original greencloth, ruled in black with a large gilt title on

upper cover, g.e.; just a little wear at foot of spine. $225.00First edition, a wonderful satire in verse on Darwin’s Origin of Species, the author having aparticularly good time inventing and illustrating the “certain missing links.” The dinosaurs, forexample, “came to breathe the air, and wield their strength,/ And fit the world for better life atlength.” Eight copies in OCLC, including Smithsonian, Southern Cal., and Wagner College in theU.S.A.

UNRECORDED, ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN PENNY NUMBERS

18. BROADER, MARK. The Muse of Spaldington, consisting of Sonnets, Odes and Elegies, byMark Broader, Excise Officer. Una bagatelle l’amitie. Price in Boards One Shilling. Kirby-

Moorside: Printed and Sold by M. Cooper, Post-Office, 1846.[viii], 72pp., sm. 8vo. Issued in “penny numbers,” according tonote by the author at p. 64, which must have consisted of eightoriginals of four leaves each, as is consistent with the placement ofthe poems, and two final numbers with the preliminaries andappendices including a list of subscribers and the statement “Acomplete set, consisting of ten Numbers, will be sent (carriage free)to any Individual on receiving ten postage stamps.” Original roan-backed marbled boards. $400.00First and only edition, poems for “his Fellow-Yorkshiremen, whohave, like himself, sung and whistled at the Plough.” Most of thepoems are local and cheerful, but there’s one titled “Briton’s reply tothe American Polk’s War-threat”:Must you the proud Heroes of Field and of Flood,Bow down to this Polk with your wooden walls good,Whilst America laughs you to scorn?I can trace no record of this book, whether in penny numbers orotherwise. It is typographically somewhat unusual and attractive, andis clearly, as stated on p. 64, one of the “few Copies of the Muse of

Spaldington, put in Boards,” which could be “had of the Author, or of the Printer.”

19. BROWN, LOUISA. Historical Questions on the Kings of England, in Verse. Calculated to fix onthe Minds of Children, some of the most Striking Events of each Reign. London: Printed forDarton, Harvey, and Darton, 1815. [iv], 33, [3]pp., 16mo. Woodcut portrait vignettes throughout,with a leaf of publishers’ catalogue at end. Original printed drab stiff wrappers; covers grubbywith the backstrip partly split. $100.00

Second edition, not so stated, with such rhymes as:What great and glorious princess rose,To govern here, when death did closeThe barb’rous course which Mary chose? . . .

The author was a schoolteacher, as is shown in thededication of this book. Osborne Collection, p. 161 (thisedition, with note that the verses are “in the manner of AnnTaylor’s ‘My Mother’”). See also Jackson, Romantic Poetryby Women, p. 42, no. 2, citing only the first edition of 1813.

20. BURNS, JOHN. Poems and Songs, English & Scottish.Ashton-under-Lyne: Printed by Thomas Cunningham. Soldby Messrs. Longman and Co. London; and T. Sowler,Manchester, 1827. vii, 89, [3]pp., 12mo, the last two pagesbeing an index. Engraved frontispiece. [Bound with]ARNOTT, DAVID. The Witches of Keil’s Glen, ADramatic Fragment; with Other Poems. Cupar: Printed byR. Tullis, (Printer to the University of St Andrews,) andSold by J. Cook, St Andrews., 1825. viii, [ii], 85, [1]pp.,

12mo. One leaf (pp. 11-12) partly detached. The two works bound together in contemporary blackcalf with Greek key gilt framing, elaborately gilt spine. Engraved bookplate of Thomas Greig,Glencarse on front pastedown. $250.00

First edition of both works. Burns’s poems include “Land of the Thistle,” “Here We Three HaveMet Again” (illustrated in the work's frontispiece), “On the Death of Lord Byron,” “I Met TwaCronies, Ere Yestreen,” and “Drink, Drink, Empty and Fill Again.” Arnott’s collection includesforty-six poems and sonnets in addition to the long title poem. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 151 and 27; OCLC locates six copies of both works.

21. BURNS, ROBERT. The Poems & Songs. . . with a Life of the Author, containing a variety ofparticulars, drawn from sources inaccessible to former biographers. To which is subjoined anAppendix, consisting of a Panegyrical Ode, and a Demonstration of Burns’ superiority to everyother Poet as a Writer of Songs, by the Rev. Hamilton Paul. Air: Printed by Wilson, M’Cormick &Carnie, 1819. xii, xlviii, 312, [24]pp., 12mo. Engraved portrait and vignette on the additional titleby Wedgewood (these rather spotted as usual). Near-contemporary half calf; worn with the spinelabel missing. $100.00

First edition under Paul’s editorship, one of the more important posthumous editions, in which notonly appear his new life, a glossary, and other bits of apparatus, but also a previously unpublishedpoem by Burns himself. Egerer, Bibliography of Burns, 214.

NOT IN OCLC

22. BURTON, CHARLES. An Ode on the Use and Abuse of Poetry; suggested by the Present Timesand Recent Publications. By the Rev. C. Burton, LL.B. London: Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees,Orme, and Brown; and by J. Gleave, Deansgate, Manchester, 1822. [24]pp., 8vo, the first and lastblank leaves used as pastedowns, with the half-title, last page with colophon “J. Gleave, Printer,Manchester.” An agreeable unsophisticated copy, untrimmed in the original blue-gray printedwrappers; stitching mostly missing with the wrappers and leaves essentially disjunct, with theinkstamp of the now-dispersed Wigan Public Library on the verso of the title and a small callnumber on the upper wrapper. $425.00

First edition, rare, contrasting the glories of past English poets with the “sad prostituted Genius” ofByron and his ilk

In vain shall then the too-voluptuous Muse,With syren melodies, her victims choose;Or Byron laud his deeds of crimson dye,Sing meretricious love and chivalry;Or baser Shelley, on the gates of hell,With reckless vaunt impinge his sceptic shell.

No copy of this first edition is in OCLC, and COPAC records only one, atChetham’s Library in Manchester. Not in Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839,who notes an expanded version as The Bardiad, published in 1823.

23. BURTON, HENRY BINDON. Eula and other Poems. London: Bell &Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden; Dublin: William McGee, 18 NassauStreet, [1871]. xii, 284pp., 8vo. Half-title and title page unopened (these veryslightly torn at edge), signed by the author on half-title and additional errata

added in pencil to those listed on p. vi, other contemporary pencilled markings throughout.Untrimmed in the original green cloth, gilt with additional black stamping. $85.00

First edition. Largely a collection of romantic poetry, written by a solicitor and printed at the“Dublin Steam Printing Company.” It opens with a poem entitled “Erin,” and includes “DrinkingSong,” “With the Billows on the Sea,” and “The Handsome Young Cavalier,” among others.OCLC records only a single copy, at the University of Göttingen; COPAC adds five locations inthe British Isles.

THREE DIFFERENT COPIES: YELLOW, BLUE, AND LEMON

24. [BURTON, ROGER TAYLOR]. The Miser’s Dream. A Poem. By the Author of“Contemplations on Israel’s Exodus.” London: Bell and Daldy. Colchester: Benham & Harrison,1871. 8pp., 8vo. Each of the three copies as new in the original glazed printed wrappers,respectively yellow, blue, and lemon. $200.00

First edition, the poetical dream showing the miser the error of his ways. These three copies arestrikingly attractive examples of Victorian publishers’ thrifty use of paper in hand, in spectacularcondition. The poem itself appears to be very rare, with no record in COPAC, and OCLC locatingonly a single copy at Louisiana State.

25. [BUSK, HANS]. The Banquet: in Three Cantos. London: Published by Baldwin, Cradock, andJoy, 1819. viii, 144pp., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and additional title, both printed on India paperand mounted. Untrimmed in the original drab boards; worn and rather grubby, with a largeprinted circulating label on the upper cover, apparently for a private group, with the first ofsixteen names a “Mr. Renoüard.” $400.00

First edition, founded on the French Gastronomia of Berchoux, and in its own right an attractiveand witty poem on “the antiquity, utility, and vitality of the science of eating, as well as itsanteriority and superiority to all other arts and sciences whatsoever.” The poem is divided into“courses”; the second includes the following:

For you - my bins shall team with Frontignac;My glasses shine with Malmsey and Balsac;My ardent spirits, colourless as bright,Clear as the liquid from the rock, invite.

Oxford, English Cookery Books to the Year 1850, pp. 146-7.

26. BUTLER, ANN. Fragments in Verse; Chiefly on Religious Subjects. Oxford: Published byBarlett and Hinton, 1826. [xiv], 155pp., sm. 8vo. With a list of mostly local subscribers.Untrimmed in the original drab boards, printed paper label on spine with price “4s.”; upper jointcracked but firm, spine ends slightly chipped. $350.00

First edition. Many of Butler’s poems were inspired by specific sermons, such as “The GrandInquiry” and “Difficulties Removed.” Other poems include “To a Lady on her intended Marriage”and “The Face not always an Index to the Heart.” Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 48, no.1; four locations in OCLC: British Library, Bodleian, UCLA, and Yale.

EXTENSIVE MANUSCRIPT ADDITIONS

27. BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, Lord. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. A Satire.London: Printed for James Cawthorne, British Library, [circa 1809]. vi, 54pp., 12mo. With thehalf-title, and with extensive, closely-written additions of “cancelled passages. . . from Galignani’sedition” added on seven leaves inserted at appropriate places, other manuscript notes in the

margins, all in the same hand, a later note by “E. Rumsey Park” dated 1831. Contemporary calfgilt, g.e.; neatly rebacked with a gilt label. $175.00

An early edition or issue, printed as far as I can tell on unwatermarked paper, and with the errata onpp. [v] and 5 corrected. The publisher Cawthorn, as T.J. Wise (Byron, I, 22) noted, certainlyprinted more copies than the thousand initially bargained for in the first edition, “from standingtypes, and disposed of these to his own advantage.” What makes this copy perhaps more appealingis the care with which an early reader has annotated it to allow comparison of the original text withthe later, supposedly unexpurgated, one.

BYRON APOCRYPHA IN EARLY MANUSCRIPT

28. BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, Lord. Two contemporary manuscripts of apocryphalByron poems, inserted in The Works. . . In Two Volumes. [Together with six other volumes ofByron’s works including a number of first editions, the whole probably collected by and uniformlybound for R.F.B. Rickards, whose signature dated 1836 appears in each volume - see below].London: Printed for John Murray, 1815-1824. Together 8 vols., 8vo. Engraved portrait from theEuropean Magazine inserted as frontispiece to Vol. I; Vol. III containing two inserted pieces inearly manuscript: (1) “Ode” beginning “Oh, shame to thee, Land of the Gaul!” in nine stanzas ontwo folio leaves (slightly torn due to insertion but no text lost); and (2)“Ode to the Tax Year, orFifth of April,” five stanzas on both sides of a single quarto leaf; the majority of the printed workslacking half-titles and advertisements, the copy of Marino Faliero in Vol. VI very grubby, the restof the individual works generally in good order. Uniform blind-ruled calf; one upper cover with agouge at the top, sometime (not recently) uniformly rebacked with gilt spines, and new endpaperswindowed to show R.F.B. Rickards’s signature in each volume. $850.00

First editions of many of Byron’s iconic works,but this set chiefly notable (at least in thiscataloguer’s opinion) for the presence of thetwo apocryphal poems in manuscript, of whichmore below.The first two volumes are John Murray’s firstcollection of Byron’s Works, 2 vols. containinga sammelband of individual pieces most withtheir original title-pages preserved, includingthe fourteenth and last revised edition of TheGiaour and first editions of The Corsair andPrisoner of Chillon. Vol. III continues theWorks and is so titled, containing, in additionto the two manuscripts, first editions ofMazeppa, Manfred, Hebrew Melodies, Poems(1816), Monody on the Death of Sheridan, andreprints of The Lament of Tasso, The Age ofBronze, and The Island. Vol. IV containsreprints of Hours of Idleness and EnglishBards; Vol. V a first edition of Sardanapalusand a reprint of The Deformed Transformed;Vol. VI a first edition of Werner and a poorcopy of Marino Faliero; and Vols. VII-VIIIcontain the small paper first editions of DonJuan, all but the first two cantos (which are, asalways in this format, a “New Edition”).Of the two manuscript poems, the first odebeginning “Oh, shame to thee, Land of the Gaul!” appeared in a spurious collection of Byron’sPoems on his Domestic Circumstances in 1816. It was reprinted in various early editions ofByron’s collected works, but its authorship began to be seen as suspect, with one critic noting thepoem’s presence in Galignani’s Paris edition of 1818 and commenting “But this at least is certain -that if Byron wrote ‘Oh, shame to thee, land of the Gaul,’ Antoine Galignani wrote ‘ChildeHarold.’”

The second manuscript, “Ode to the Tax Year, or Fifth of April,” is more obscure, and to the bestof my knowledge has not previously been attributed to Byron, although there are flashes of aparallel wit:

. . . Whose parchment scourge and payment hourThe poor affright, the rich molest!Bound in thy adamantine chainMillions are taught to taste of painAnd freeborn Britons vainly groanWith pangs unfelt before, unpitied and unknown!

The poem seems first to have appeared in The Morning Chronicle of August 18, 1815, and itclearly struck a chord, as it was reprinted in the London Correspondent and Public Cause onAugust 23, and then again in March 1816 in The News over the signature “A. C.” with the title“Ode to the Income Tax.”The Rev. Robert Francis Bute Rickards, original owner of this set, took his B.A. at Balliol College,Oxford in 1832. He was the son of Robert Richards, Member of Council for the Bengal Presidencyand M.P. for Wootton Basset 1813-16, and therefore at least aware of and possibly even distantlyacquainted with Byron. There is a slightly cropped ownership inscription “R. Richards” on the titlepage of the 1814 Corsair in Vol. II of the Works, so it is at least conceivable that Rickards inheritedsome if not all of the contents of these eight volumes, including the manuscripts, from his father.Rickards published several religious works including one for children over his four decades in thechurch, and had a substantial book collection. Within three weeks of his death in 1874 appeared aCatalogue of a Library of Books, upwards of 2000 volumes, in excellent preservation, also a pairof 18 inch globes, magic lantern, transit instruments &c. of the late rev. R. F. B. Rickards, Vicar ofConstantine to be sold by public auction by Mr. Corfield at the Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth onTuesday the 24th of November 1874.

29. [BYRON] - Lord Byron’s Farewell to England; with Three Other Poems, viz. Ode to St. Helena,To my Daughter, on the Morning of her Birth, and To the Lily of France. London: Published by J.Johnston, 98, Cheapside, and 335, Oxford-Street, and sold by all booksellers, 1816. [iv], 31[1]pp.,8vo, the final page being publisher’s advertisements, with the half-title. Modern blue boards,paper spine label. $125.00

First edition of these four spurious poems, inspired by Byron’s “Fare Thee Well” and sometimesattributed to John Agg. These poems were later included in some editions of Byron’s Poems on HisDomestic Circumstances, even though Byron wrote to his publisher John Murray on July 22, 1816repudiating them and declaring the pamphlet to be “about the most impudent imposition that everissued from Grub Street. I need hardly say that I know nothing of all this trash, nor whence it mayspring. As to ‘The Lily of France,’ I should as soon think of celebrating a turnip.”

30. CAMPBELL, ELIZABETH. Songs of My Pilgrimage. By Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell, Lochee.With an Introduction by the Rev. George Gilfillan. Also,Autobiographical Sketch of the Authoress, Photo-portrait, andLithographed Poem in her Handwriting. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot,17 Princes Street, 1875. xx, [15]-128pp., 8vo, including the leaf withthe lithographed facsimile of the author’s handwriting. Mountedalbumen photograph of the author at the age of 72 by J. Valentine.Original blind-patterned red cloth, upper cover gilt-titled; smallchip from the spine head, otherwise a fine copy. $90.00First edition, with a fine autobiographical fragment which Gilfillancalls “simply graphic and unostentatiously beautiful.” Many of thepoems are in Scottish dialect; one that is not is “My Tramp to See theQueen”:O! such a crowd of carriages did pass me like a train,With pleasure-seeking tourists - the sight my heart did pain -For I, foot-sore and weary, lay down upon the green,O! my Sunday tramp of eighteen miles to see our British Queen.

Eight locations in OCLC.

31. CAREY, DAVID. The Pleasures of Nature; or, the Charms of Rural Life; with other Poems.London: Printed by J. Swan, Angel Street, for Vernor and Hood, 1803. [viii], 164, [2]pp., sm. 8vo.Engraved frontispiece by Fitler after Burney, with a leaf of publishers’ advertisements at end.Contemporary tree calf gilt; upper joint worn. $90.00

First edition, the title poem in Spenserian stanzas which one contemporary reviewer described asan imitation “of the tedious Beattie.” There are some other, more sprightly, occasional poems,including an “Illegitimate Ode to the Shop of an Eminent Bookseller”:

Ah, books belov’d! ah, pleasing shop!So form’d to entertain;Where one so easily may popHis nose in time of rain. . . .

32. CAREY, DAVID. Poems, Chiefly Amatory. By David Carey, Author of the Pleasures of Nature,Reign of Fancy, &c. &c. London: Printed by Swan and Son, 76, Fleet Street, for J. Blacklock,Royal-Exchange; and sold by Vernon, Hood, and Sharpe, Poultry; and A. Constable and Co.Edinburgh, 1807. xi, 127, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. With the half-title, and a rather racy engravedfrontispiece by Hopwell after Craig featuring Cupid, Emma and Pompey from the poem“Anacreontic” (pp. 29-30). Attractively bound in later nineteenth-century half blue calf overmarbled boards, spine fully gilt. $175.00

First edition, with a frontispiece that is nowhere recorded in the online library records and which,because of its subject, might have been excised or even suppressed. OCLC records five copies inNorth America.

33. [CAUNTER, RICHARD MACDONALD]. Attila, a Tragedy; and Other Poems. London: T.and W. Boone, New Bond-Street, 1832. [viii], 316pp., 8vo. With a leaf of publisher’sadvertisements preceding the title. An excellent copy, untrimmed in the original gray paperboards, printed paper label; small splits at spine head. $90.00

First edition, by the youngest son of the former superintendent of Princeof Wales Island, today Penang Island, Malaysia. His brother was authorof the popular literary annual, The Oriental Annual, or Scenes in India(1834-1838), to which Richard was said to have provided material.“Attila” is moralizing and rather gory; other poems have their owngloomy aspect, such as “On the Death of a Schoolfellow AccidentallyKilled.”

34. [CLIVE, CAROLINE]. I Watched the Heavens. A Poem by V.Author of “IX Poems.” [Bound with] The Valley of the Rea. By V.[And] Poetic Fragments: from Unpublished Mss. By F.B. Berington.Second Edition. London: Saunders and Otley, [for the first two works,

and C. Chapple for the third] 1842, 1851, and 1848. Three works in one vol., respectively [iv], 58;15, [1]; and 120pp., sm. 8vo, with the last work by Berington bound first in the volume. With thehalf-title to I Watched the Heavens, none called for elsewhere, and with a pencil note on the titleof that work “Wild & confused in form. . .” Contemporary green calf gilt by Clyde, Newman St.,g.e. $600.00

First edition of both of these works by ‘V.’, the pseudonym which Caroline Clive adopted fornearly all her poetic works, short for Vigolina, her husband’s dog-Latin translation of her maidenname Wigley. Her poetry was widely admired in her lifetime; the critic George Saintsbury thoughtit was “really good.” P.D. Edwards in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography more preciselydescribes her as writing “conventional late Romantic lyrics, gloomy and graceful.” In 1847 she metboth Mary Russell Mitford and Elizabeth Barrett Browning but was not impressed with either. Thefeeling was mutual: Browning spoke slightingly of Clive’s poetry and personality.Both of Clive’s works in this volume are rare, with OCLC giving I Watched the Heavens threelocations in North America (Princeton, UCLA, and Wisconsin), and The Valley of the Rea none inNorth America and only three overall, at Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, and Victoriaand Albert. Berington’s Poetic Fragments is rarer still, with both OCLC and COPAC locating onlythe British Library copy.

35. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. The Ancient Mariner, and other Poems. London: CharlesTilt, 1836. xvi, 142, [2]pp., 32mo (4¼ x 2¾ inches). Woodcut frontispiece, with the half-title(headed “Tilt’s Miniature Classical Library”) and a leaf of advertisements at end. An unusuallynice copy in the original blind-patterned fine-grained brown cloth, upper cover gilt-titled, g.e.Ticket of Roake & Varty, Booksellers, 51 Strand on upper pastedown. $35.00

An early selection from Coleridge intended, as the publisher’s preface says, to reach beyond “aselect few.” OCLC locates nine copies in North America.

36. [COOKSON, C.]. Glastonbury Abbey: A Poem. Taunton: Printed and Published by W. Bragg;and sold by Longman & Co. Paternoster Row, London, 1828. 159, [1]pp., 12mo. A few leavescarelessly opened towards the end, and a few others left unopened. Original drab boards;rebacked with a modern paper label. $150.00

First edition, with much on the fabled history of the Abbey, and some historical notes. Theoccasional poems at the end show the author spent time in India; one of these is “In Memory of anOfficer shot on Parade by one of his own Men, who was Executed for the Crime.”

37. COUPER, ROBERT. Poetry chiefly in the Scottish Language. By Robert Couper, M.D., &c.Inverness: Printed by J. Young. For Vernor and Hood, London, 1804. 2 vols., 8vo. With the half-title in Vol. I, but not in Vol. II. Contemporary half calf; spines worn but holding. $175.00

First edition, by a medical doctor who spent some of his early years as tutor to a family in Virginia,returned to Scotland to study medicine, and ended up as physician to the Duke of Gordon, himselfa poet as well as an important patron of Robert Burns. The preface contains a fine discussion ofBurns and how his fate affected the progress of poetry in Scotland. Johnson, Provincial Poetry1789-1839, 220.

38. [D., C.]. Mrs Wiggens’s Trip to Sea, July 1842. Brighton: Robert Folthorp, 170, North Street,1843. 11, [1]pp., 8vo. Lithographed frontispiece and nine plates, both these and the poetical textsigned “C.D.” A very nice copy in the original blind-stamped flexible green cloth, upper covergilt-stamped “Mrs. Wiggens,” early paper spine label with manuscript title added and on the frontpastedown a printed ownership label of the Tabley House Library. $125.00

First edition, said to be a parody of Cowper’s John Gilpin, the tale of “a city dame,/ For plumpnessof renown,” who takes a pleasure cruise off Brighton Pier and comes to regret it. Four locations inOCLC, only Texas in North America.

39. DAVIDSON, ROBERT. Poems. Jedburgh: Printed for the Author, By W. Easton, 1825. 168pp.,sm. 8vo. With the half-title. An unusually nice copy, untrimmed in the original blue boards;backstrip very slightly chipped. $225.00

First edition, including “Lines on hearing that a Monument was Erecting over the Grave of RobertBurns”:

Pledge to the hearts! joy be their lot!Who bid the sculptured column rise. . .

There are several songs in Scottish dialect, and other poems with titles such as “Wallace’sFarewell” and “Cameron’s Address to his Clan.” Five copies in OCLC: British Library, NationalLibrary of Scotland, Aberdeen, Stanford, and Texas.

UNRECORDED: APPARENTLY A LOST POET

40. DICKINSON, GEORGE. Poems by George Dickinson, Eals, Alston.Carlisle: G. & T. Coward, 1887. viii, 104pp., 8vo. With the half-title.Original cloth, spine gilt-lettered; discolored and with the lower inner hingestarting to split. $225.00Apparently the only publication of a lost poet. A “George Dickinson, Jr.”published a work of local history in Newcastle in 1884, but this cannot be ourman, as ours declares in the preface to this book that he was born in 1870, “sothat he has now only completed his seventeenth year.” The first three poemsare on Khartoum and General Gordon, the last “On the Victory of Beach in theInternational Sculling Regatta.” I can find no mention of this poet in any of theusual catalogues or databases, or even a hint of his existence in various onlinesearch attempts.

41. DUCAREL, PHILIP JOHN. Poems, Original and Translated. By P. J. Ducarel, Esq. London:Printed for James Carpenter, Old Bond Street, 1807. [iii]-xiv, [ii], 174pp., sm. 8vo. Without thehalf-title. Contemporary calf; upper cover all but detached. $80.00

First edition, including translations from classical Latin poets, a long gothic poem on a subjecttaken from the seventeenth-century writer James Howell, and occasional pieces such as “On thedeath of Lady Georgiana Stewart” and “To Emma.” Seven locations in OCLC.

LINES ON BURNS’S MAUSOLEUM

42. DUFF, JAMES. A Collection of Poems, Songs, &c. Chiefly Scottish, by James Duff; Formerly ofthe Royal Perthshire Volunteers. Perth: Printed by R. Morison, for the Author, 1816. [ii], ii,“175”, [i.e. 176]pp., sm. 8vo, the last two pages of the index both being numbered 175. A grubbybut intact copy, a few leaves carelessly opened and a few other slight marginal tears. Untrimmedin the original calf-backed boards; worn with the paper covering largely off and the jointssplitting. $150.00

First edition, including “Lines on Burns’ Mausoleum,” and “On the Poverty of Poets”:’Tis oft remark’d, that most of bards are poor,But how it is, remains a mystery sure.

Other pieces include “Bonaparte’s Comin’,” “On the Death of Lord Nelson,” and “On the Death ofMr Pitt.” Not in Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, who records other titles published byMorison; five copies in OCLC: University of Glasgow, Columbia, Newberry, Princeton, and Yale.

43. FOX, WILLIAM. La Bagatella; or, Delineations of Home Scenery. A Descriptive Poem. In twoParts. With Notes, Critical and Historical, by William Fox, Junr. London: Printed for T. Conder,Bucklersbury; and F. and C. Rivington, and J. Johnson, 1801. xxii, [ii], 201, [5]pp., 8vo. Fourengraved illustrations signed “Isaac Taylor, Colchester,” with two terminal leaves, one of errata,the last a publisher’s advertisement, front flyleaf inscribed “From the Author,” with “Wm. Butler”in pencil above. A nice fresh copy in a worn binding of contemporary flame calf, spine labelmissing. $100.00

First edition, praise of the countryside near London, with something of the style of James Hurdis:The common grass here scentsAs pure as in the unfrequented vale.The gently rippling stream here runs as clearAs other streams — the birds as sweetly singAs forest birds, where no one lists to hear.

44. FRANKLIN, ROBERT. Miller’s Muse; Rural Poems. Hull: Printed and Sold by I. Wilson,Lowgate; Sold also by the Author: Baldwin, Cradock and Joy. . . ; Rodford, Hull; Miss Wilbar,Barton; Brooke and Son. . . Turner, Beverley; and all other Booksellers, 1824. xv, [5], 95, [1]pp.,8vo. With a list of subscribers; a little minor spotting. An attractive copy in contemporary halfcalf, spine fully gilt. $150.00

First edition, a generally cheerful series of poems on his “Native Village,” “Peace,” “The SchoolMistress,” and “The Banks of the Humber,” with a few admonitory ones on a convict, poacher,suicide, and “The Murderer.” Franklin was the son of millers, but the death of his father forced himfrom the mill in which he had been brought up. After a short period in service with a local squire -“I never felt the shackles of servitude press lighter” - he was able to return, writing

I have since frequently pondered over what may justly seem to have been the workof an over-ruling Providence - the chain of events, by which I not only obtained asituation in life congenial to my wishes, but also became the possessor of that veryplace, which, when a boy, I was unwillingly compelled to leave in tears.

Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 339; OCLC locates four copies in the United States.

NOT IN OCLC OR COPAC

45. [G., D.K.]. Gems of Old Erin, and Sketches of ModernCivilization. By An Uncivilized Irishman. Dublin: Printed at theCity of Dublin Print. Establishment, 1866. 51, [1]pp., 12mo insixes. A couple of old library stamps of the Mercantile Library,Philadelphia (dispersed), a few minor stains, but a sound copy,disbound. $200.00

First and only edition, of which I can trace only the two copies at theNational Library of Ireland; the title is not listed in OCLC orCOPAC. These are topical and amusing poems, most with shortexplanations in prose by the author, beginning with “Pat Murphyand the Fairies,” (“in which the reader is introduced to some of thefinest peasantry in the world”), and including “A New Dogma. Byan Old Growler” (“This song was written on the Dog Tax, December30, 1865”), and “The Foe-to-Graphic Art, or where Not to Get YourLikeness Taken,” on the perils of being photographed.

46. GARRATT, THOMAS. Original Poems. By Thomas Garratt,Jun. of Baddesley Ensor. London: Printed for the Author, ByBarnard and Farley, Skinner-Street, 1818 xv, [i], 167, [1]pp., 12mo. With a list of subscribers, thiscopy interleaved with blanks throughout. A few minor stains at the beginning, but an agreeablecopy (especially for readers inclined to annotate) in contemporary calf gilt; neatly rebacked withthe original spine label. $150.00

First edition, described in a poetical preface by “a friend”:Pray, who is this poetic youngster?

This migrating, pen-feather’d songster?His cadences, and tuneful words,Who taught him? . . .

Six copies in OCLC: British Library, Bodleian; Illinois, Princeton, So. Mississippi, and Yale.

“TWENTY-FIVE COPIES PRINTED”

47. [GILCHRIST, OCTAVIUS]. Rhymes. London: 1805. viii, 79, [1]pp., 8vo. Upper margin ofhalf-title clipped, presumably to remove an ownership inscription, a little minor foxing. Mid-nineteenth century half maroon sheep, spine gilt. $175.00

First and only edition, “trifles,” says the dedication, “of the Author’s Boyish Days.” The BritishLibrary catalogue identifies a couple of contributions as by John F.M. Dovaston and WilliamGifford and states “only twenty-five copies printed.”Many of the poems are translations from various languages, e.g. “Epitaph for a Wife, by herHusband. From the French.”

The ashes of my wife here lie!She finds repose - and so do I.

Other original poems are love-ballads, tales from the antique, and elegies. OCLC and COPACrecord additional copies at the Bodleian, Goettingen, Cornell, Huntington, Texas, and U.C. Davis.

48. GILCHRIST, ROBERT. Poems. Newcastle: Printed by William Boag, foot of Dean Street,1826. 88pp., 8vo. An untrimmed copy in the original boards; upper cover detached. $175.00

First edition, by a self-proclaimed manual laborer “composed during a life of incessant toil, fromthe early age of twelve years.” Subjects include local scenes, various poems composed at sea, andone “Written Beneath a Portrait of Doctor Jenner, the Illustrious Discoverer of Vaccination”: “Hisbest delight to soften human woe.” Not in Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839; six copies inOCLC, of which Harvard, New York Public, and Yale are in North America.

THE AUTHOR SUED FOR LIBEL

49. GOULBOURN, EDWARD. The Blueviad. A Satyrical Poem. London: Printed for J. Maynard. . .by Barker and Son, 1805. 119, [1]pp., 8vo. Folding engraved frontispiece, the last page an “Indexof the Characters”; a few old waterstains. Untrimmed in old-style boards, spine gilt. $100.00

First edition, the subject of a libel action after publication due to the insufficient veiling of themilitary figures here satirized, even though the “Index of the Characters” at the end gave onlyfictitious names. Edward Goulbourn, identified on the work’s title as of the “Royal Horse Guards,”was forced to resign his commission following the lawsuit; he went on to publish a number of othersuccessful poems, including The Pursuit of Fashion.

50. HACKETT, Mr. Poems, Elegiac and Miscellaneous. London: Printed for J. Carpenter, Old BondStreet, 1804. xvi, 184pp., 8vo. Small stain in upper inner corner, and some spotting throughout.Contemporary mottled calf gilt; head of spine slightly worn. $125.00

First edition of the author’s only work, largely a sequence of elegies and sonnets. One poem offerseffusive praise “To a Lady, on her condescending to submit her Poetry to the Author’s Inspection”:

Oh! may thy genius, which effulgent shines,Breathes in each word and blazons in thy lines,Unerring lead thee to the mount of Fame. . . .

OCLC locates six copies: British Library, Bodley, U.C. Berkeley, Davis, Cornell, and Rice.

51. HAINING, WILLIAM. Miscellaneous Pieces. By the late Rev. William Haining. Dumfries:Published by John M’Kinnell, 1843. viii, 57, [1]pp., 8vo. Lithographed frontispiece of “The ThreeBrethren,” and an errata slip inserted before the first leaf of text. Original patterned cloth,unlettered; a bit stained, but sound. $150.00

First edition, with many of the poems on local subjects including “those very aged and majesticoaks, called ‘The Three Brethren.’” OCLC records a single copy, at the National Library ofScotland.

52. HAMILTON, JANET. Poems and Ballads. . . . With Introductory Papers by the Rev George

Gilfillan and the Rev Alexander Wallace. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Sons, 1868. [iv], 319,[1]pp., 8vo. Facsimile plate of the author’s eccentric handwriting facing the first leaf of text.Original green cloth gilt. $50.00

First edition of this collection, by one of the most popular working-class poets of the period, self-taught.

THE BRONTES’ DRUGGIST

53. HARDAKER, JOSEPH. Poems, Lyric and Moral, on Various Subjects. Bradford: Printed forthe Author; and sold by T. Inkersley, Bridge-Street; And all other Booksellers, 1822. viii, 147,[4]pp., 12mo, the last four pages being a table of contents. An unusually nice copy, untrimmed inthe original drab boards (some light spotting), original printed paper label on spine. $350.00

First edition, with poems such as “An Epistle of Condolence, To my Lady’s Lap-Dog, Pompey,”“To a Worm, which the Author had nearly trod on,” and “Lines To the Committee for the Relief ofthe distressed Irish, accompanied with the Author’s last Shilling.” Hardaker lived in Haworth at thesame time as the Brontës and served as the town’s first apothecary. He also published anotherseries of poems, The Bridal of Tomar; and other Poems, in 1831. Johnson, Provincial Poetry1789-1839, 408; five copies in OCLC, only Stanford outside England.

54. HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA. The Sceptic; a Poem. By Mrs. Hemans. London: JohnMurray, Albemarle-Street, 1820. [iv], 38, [2], [8]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, and eight pages ofadvertisements for “following works in the press” dated December 1819; half-title with a shortmarginal tear at foot. Untrimmed in the original drab wrappers; edges slightly torn. $500.00

First edition, seen by contemporaries as one of Mrs. Hemans’s major poems. As Nanora Sweetremarks in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the poem defends “domestic andreligious values, though chillingly and from their ‘necessity.’” The Quarterly Review in 1821,commenting on several of Mrs. Hemans’s publications, gave The Sceptic by far the longest notice,summarizing its argument as “one of irresistible force to confirm a wavering mind; it is simplyresting the truth of religion on the necessity of it, on the utter misery and helplessness of manwithout it.” Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 152, no. 9(a).

55. [HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA]. Modern Greece. A Poem.London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1821. [iv], 67, [1], [6], 2pp., 8vo.With the half-title, six pages of publisher’s advertisements dated 1826, and twopages of “Proposals for Publishing . . . A Comprehensive and SystematicDisplay. . . of the Steam-Engine.” Untrimmed in the original drab wrappers;just a little worn. $275.00“New Edition,” in fact the second, a line-by-line resetting of the first and, like thefirst edition, published anonymously. Both this and the first edition appeared underthe imprint of Byron’s publisher John Murray, and the poem was often attributed toByron. Did Murray allow this reprint to remain anonymous in order to continueprofiting from the mistake? It is tempting to think so, as Murray published otherpoems by Mrs. Hemans in 1819 and 1820 with her name on the title-page. Jackson,Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 152, no. 5(b).

56. HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA. The Siege of Valencia; a Dramatic Poem. The LastConstantine: with Other Poems. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1823. [iv], 319, [1]pp.,8vo. A few minor stains, but a nice large copy in the handsome publisher’s deluxe binding ofpebbled maroon morocco, gilt with a central lyre on covers and the spine title within a decorativescroll, g.e. $200.00

First edition, one of several larger collections of poetry published in the 1820s and 1830s that madeMrs. Hemans even more popular in the United States than in England. She was admired by GeorgeEliot and Wordsworth, the latter describing her as “That holy spirit,/ Sweet as the spring, as oceandeep.” Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 153, no. 12; NCBEL III, 384.

FOUR WORKS, IN UNIFORM PUBLISHER’S BINDINGS

57. HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA. Scenes and Hymns of Life, with other Religious Poems,1834. [With] The Forest Sanctuary, 1829 [and] Records of Woman, 1830 [and] Songs of theAffections, 1835. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. . . and T. Cadell, London, 1829-1835. Togetherfour vols., large 12mo and 8vo, uniformly sized in spite of the different formats. Without the half-titles, as usual when issued in deluxe publisher’s bindings. Original maroon morocco-styledsheep, covers with gilt lyres, spines gilt-titled within scrolls, g.e.; extremities rubbed. $275.00

First edition of the first title, dedicated to William Wordsworth; the other editions are, in order,Forest Sanctuary “The Second Edition, with Additions,” Records of Woman “The Third Edition,”and Songs of the Affections “Second Edition.” An attractive survival of four of the author’s mostpopular works, uniformly bound.

PRESENTATION COPY, WITH SEVEN PAGES OF ADDITIONAL MANUSCRIPT

58. HERALD, ALEXANDER. Amusements of Solitude. By Alexander Herald, Guthrie. Arbroath:Stewart Gellatly. Dundee: W. Middleton. . . London: Whittaker and Co., 1845. ix, [iii], 114pp., sm.8vo. Front flyleaf inscribed “A Remembrance to Miss Elisabeth Kyd with the kindest regards ofthe Author. July 13th 1849” and with the flyleaves and lower free endpaper filled with additionalpoems in the author’s autograph, seven pages in all. Some old waterstaining in the lower margins,but a sound copy in contemporary red roan gilt, g.e.; extremities a bit worn. $300.00

First edition, dedicated to the local squire, John Guthrie, “by one of his tenants.” There are anumber of local poems, as well as one on seeing Lord Byron’s birth in the peerage, another on theemperor Hadrian’s farewell to his soul, and one to a friend in India. At the end of one of themanuscript poems is a note on the death of the author’s patron, who never saw the book, and thelast of the manuscripts is dated Aug. 9th 1848. The book itself is rare, with OCLC and COPAClocating copies at the British Library, National Library of Scotland, and U.C. Davis.

59. HODGSON, JOHN. Poems, written at Lanchester; by John Hodgson,Clerk. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by Longman, Hurst,Rees and Orme; and D. Akenhead and Sons, Newcastle, 1807. [iv], iv,133, [1]pp., 12mo. With a page of errata at end. Inscribed “IsabellaPeters 1807” on title-page, and with the corrigenda noted in pencil inthe text. Original blue boards, pink paper spine with manuscript title;front joint cracked and corners rubbed. $150.00

First edition of the author’s first published work, seven poems composedwhile he lived in Lanchester as a village schoolmaster. The first poem,“Woodlands,” is set on the estate of Thomas White, in an enclosure thatwas once a wild and rocky heath overgrown with ferns and grasses.“Longovium, a Vision” is illustrated by woodcuts carved by Hodgsonhimself. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 443

60. [HOFLAND, BARBARA]. A Week at Harrogate; in a Series ofLetters, Addressed from Benjamin Blunderhead, Esquire, to hisFriend, Simon: Describing whatever principally attracted his attention,on his journey (through York,) to, and during his stay at thatCelebrated Watering-Place. Knaresborough: Printed (for the Author) atHargrove’s Office, 1818. 98pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece andtwo plates, one of the latter engraved, the other woodcut, and acharming woodcut printer’s ornament at end. A wonderfully finecopy, untrimmed in the original printed and pictorial grey boards,upper cover including the imprint “Harrogate: Sold at Langdale’sLibrary.” $350.00“Third Edition; with Three neat plates.” The first edition, titled “ASeason at Harrogate” and with the letters supposedly addressed byBenjamin Blunderhead to his mother, was published in 1812 while theauthor was running a boarding school in Harrogate and struggling tosupport her artist husband. The author’s new poetical preface to thepresent edition notes its “Amendments not a few.” In fact it is almost anew poem, concentrating much more on the scenery and diversions of thetown and surrounding area, and less on Mr. Blunderhead’s adventures in

places like the racecourse and ballroom. For earlier editions see Butts, Mistress of Our Tears, 9,and Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 164, no. 3, the latter describing only the editions of1812 and 1813, not this one.

61. HOWARD, NATHANIEL. Bickleigh Vale, with other Poems. York: Printed by T. Wilson andR. Spence, 1804. viii, 139, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and one plate, with the half-titlebut without the two leaves of subscribers said to have been issued with some copies (see below).Contemporary calf gilt; slightly worn with a short split at head of the upper joint. $85.00

First edition of some highly romantic topographical and other poems. Bickleigh Vale is in deepestDevon; “the River Plym flows through it, in a very picturesque manner.” Shorter poems include“On a Friend’s Retreat,” “To the Echo of a Grotto,” “A Mother to her Natural Son,” and others.Aubin, Topographical Poetry, p. 272; Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 465, noting asubscribers’ list which may be a ghost: the Stanford University copy, which seems to have beenpart of the Johnson collection, has the same pagination as the present copy, as does the copydigitized on Google and those library copies in OCLC whose listings I was able to compare.

62. HUNT, LEIGH, GEORGE GORDON, Lord BYRON, PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, et al.The Liberal. Verse and Prose from the South. London: Printed by and for John Hunt [ - Vol. II forJohn Hunt], 1822-1823. 2 vols., 8vo. With four separate leaves of contents, the two in Vol. Irepeating the same eleven lines of errata, and the first one with the “Advertisement to the SecondEdition” dated January 1823 on verso; without the various advertisement leaves present in somecopies. A large and handsome set in contemporary half calf, spines fully gilt. Engraved bookplateof Lord Carlingford in both volumes. $275.00

Second and best edition, not so stated on the titles but on the “Advertisement” noted above. Thissecond edition adds Byron’s fine and witty preface, and the work as a whole contains majororiginal printings by Byron (“The Vision of Judgment,” “Heaven and Earth,” and translation of thefirst canto of Pulci’s “Morgante Maggiore”), Shelley’s “Song written for an Indian Air,” and“May-Day Night,” and others by William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt who was the driving force behindthe project.

“IN EASY VERSE”

63. JOHNSON, WILLIAM ROBERT. The History of England, in Easy Verse: From the Invasionof Julius Caesar, to the Beginning of the Year 1806. Written for the purpose of being Committedto Memory by Young Persons of both Sexes. London: Printed for Tabart and Co., 1806. xii, 129,[3]pp., 18mo. Folding engraved map (small old repair along one fold), with a publisher’scatalogue at end; one gathering partly sprung. Original red roan-backed boards; spine ends

worn, but sound. $250.00First edition, taking the history to the death of William Pitt, and noting, e.g.,

But while at Austerlitz our allies fail,Great Nelson still for conquest spreads the sail;And off Trafalgar, crown’d with glory, dies. . . .

Moon, Benjamin Tabart, 78(1); six copies (Buffalo & Erie, Florida State, Lilly, Monash, Texas andUCLA) in OCLC, to which COPAC adds British Library and Bodleian. The publisher’s catalogueis detailed and closely printed, and includes titles which seem entirely to have vanished, e.g.“Nursery Jingles; or, Original Rhimes for the Nursery, by M. Pelham. Price 6d. or 1s. with plates.”

RICHARD GARNETT’S COPY, WITH THE RARE MOUNTED PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH

64. JONES, EBENEZER. Studies of Sensation And Event. Editedprefaced and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd withmemorial notices of the author by Sumner Jones and WilliamJames Linton. London: Pickering and Co., 1879. lxxxviii, 207,[1]pp., 8vo. Mounted oval albumen photograph as frontispiece,on an inserted leaf before the title-page. Ownership signature“R[ichard] Garnett” on half-title, and an original publisher’sadvertisement for the 1843 edition of this book pasted to theverso of the front free endpaper. Original fine-grained bluecloth, paper spine label rubbed. Book-label “from the library ofDavid Garnett” on front pastedown. $175.00

Second edition, first published in 1843 and met with suchscathing criticism that the author never recovered, afterwardswriting little more verse and dying of consumption in 1860. Buthe found a champion in Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who wrote ofJones as “nearly the most striking instance of neglected genius inour modern school of poetry. His poems are full of vividdisorderly power.” In due course the present edition, much enlarged, appeared. Apparently only avery few copies contained this original albumen photograph, and it makes sense that RichardGarnett would have had one, as an author, librarian at the British Museum, and the writer of thesympathetic entry for Jones in the original Dictionary of National Biography.

65. JOYCE, ROBERT DWYER. Blanid. By Robert D. Joyce, Author of “Deirdre.” Boston: RobertsBrothers, 1879. 249, [1]pp., 8vo. Original green cloth gilt; front endpaper missing and the edge ofthe title leaf slightly chipped. $20.00

First edition, by an Irish poet said to have been an “oddly detached cousin” of James Joyce. Afteremigrating to Boston from Dublin in the late 1860s, Joyce published two works, Ballads of IrishChivalry (1872) and Deirdre (1876), which latter sold ten thousand copies in its first week ofpublication. Four years after publishing Blanid, Joyce returned to Dublin and died.

66. [KAVANAGH, MORGAN PETER]. The Reign of Lockrin. A Poem. London: Whittaker & Co.,Ave Maria Lane, 1840. [iv], [7]-226pp., 8vo. With the half-title, jump in pagination as in allcopies, errata slip inserted before the first leaf of text. Original gray boards, printed paper label;broken. Small old inkstamp of the American Congregational Association on title. $85.00

First edition, presumably second issue (see below), printed in Dartford and with the last sixty pagesdevoted to a prose essay “The Present State of English Literature,” in part derived from “theunpublished remarks of a literary man lately deceased.” These remarks are unusually good, andinclude “doggerel notes - to remind me of a few of the first class of our late or living poets”:

Old wont do -Something new -A milk white doe -A pedlar’s woe. . .A noble child,Who seldom smiled -Is sick of home -

Must needs go roam.Wild dissipation -Wife’s vexation.

OCLC and COPAC locate six copies, all with this pagination and all of them dated 1839. No 1840copy is recorded, and one can only infer a stop-press update.

67. KEANE, JOHN HENRY. Ladye Alice, The Flower of Ossorye with Metrical Legends ChroniclesTranslations and Miscellaneous Poems by John Henry Keane. London: William Pickering, 1836.211, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. With a final page of publisher’s advertisement for another work by thisauthor. Slightly later half calf over marbled boards, spine gilt; somewhat rubbed. $150.00

First edition, by an Irish author and dedicated to the “enlightened patriot” Arthur Chichester, LordTemplemore, who represented County Wexford before being raised to the peerage by William IV.OCLC locates five copies: British Library, Bodleian, Trinity College Dublin, State Library of NewSouth Wales, and Yale.

68. KENEALY, EDWARD VAUGHAN. Poems and Translations. London: Reeves and Turner,1864. xiv, 460pp., an unusually large duodecimo. Title printed in red and black. Original redcloth with faded gilt spine and design in black on upper cover. $40.00

First edition, printed in multi-lingual types, and with poems onByron, Coleridge, Shelley, Felicia Hemans, “Advice to BadPoets,” and some nursery rhymes.

MOURNING BINDING

69. KENNEDY, RANN. A Poem on the Death of Her RoyalHighness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Coburg. Bythe Rev. R. Kennedy, A.M. Late of St. John’s College,Cambridge, and now Minister of St. Paul’s Chapel, inBirmingham. London: Printed for the Author, By A.J. Valpy,Tooke’s Court, 1817. 42, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title andterminal blank leaf; a few minor spots. Contemporarystraight-grained black sheep, upper cover gilt-titled, a sombrebinding probably for presentation and including glazed blackendpapers; both covers now detached. $150.00First edition:

Thou hast not reign’d, except in British hearts,Where, in the thought of what thou wouldst have been,Thou, in a dear brief space, hast reign’d an age.

70. KNIGHT, ANN CUTHBERT. Home: A Poem. Edinburgh: Printed by J. & C. Muirhead, andsold by Archd. Constable & Co. Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst,Rees, Orme, & Brown, London, 1815. viii, 98, [2]pp., sm. 8vo. Withan errata leaf at end and an additional manuscript correction at p.56. An excellent copy, untrimmed in the original drab boards,slightly stained and with a couple of small chips, printed paper spinelabel. $500.00

First edition, a significant poem by a woman about an emigree’s life inCanada at the time of the War of 1812, “composed at the moment ofdanger and enthusiasm [with] the fate of the province yet doubtful.”Ann Cuthbert Knight (1788-1860) first traveled to British NorthAmerica in 1811, returning to Scotland in late 1812. The year thispoem was published the family returned to Canada, settling inMontreal. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 181; seven copiesin OCLC, of which Chicago, Duke, and Kentucky are in the U.S.A.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN’S FAVORITE POET

71. KNOX, WILLIAM. The Lonely Hearth, and other Poems. North Shields: Printed for the Author,By J.K. Pollock, 1818. 144, [2]pp., 12mo. With the half-title and an errata leaf at end. A fewminor spots and ink notations, but a nice copy in contemporary half black calf, spine gilt;extremities slightly rubbed. $350.00

First edition of the first book by Abraham Lincoln’s favorite poet, although it might be only fair toadd that it is improbable that Mr. Lincoln ever caught sight of any of the poems in the presentvolume. Lincoln’s connection to Knox came from the poem “Mortality,” which begins “O whyshould the spirit of mortal be proud?” which the president quoted so often that some thought hewrote it himself. The present book contains many verses is similar vein; “Mortality” first appearedin Knox’s second book, published in 1824, when the poet was already on his way to what SirWalter Scott described as “dissipation and ruin.” Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 518; fourcopies in OCLC: British Library, National Library of Scotland, Stanford, and U.C. Davis.

FIRST BOOK

72. LEATHAM, WILLIAM HENRY. Poems. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green andLongman, 1840. [ii], ix, [xii], “8,” [13], 18-358pp., 8vo. With the half-title, the preliminarypagination erratic but complete. A fine untrimmed copy in contemporary glazed cream boards,morocco spine label. $175.00

First edition of the author’s first book, printed for him in Wakefield by “Richard and CharlesNichols, Typographers.” Some of the pieces in this volume were later reprinted and in some casesapparently separately issued as Leatham went on to a successful political career. But this firstedition is uncommon, with OCLC locating eight copies in Great Britain and two (NYPL andUCLA) in North America.

73. LEECH, MARGARET. Poems, on Various Subjects. By Miss Leech. London: Printed byWhittingham and Rowland, 1816. [viii], 195pp., 4to. Old waterstain affecting the outer corners ofsome leaves, but a good large copy in worn but sound contemporary cloth. $150.00

First edition, printed on a fine thick paper, and with the “Printed by. . .” imprint suggesting aprivately published work. The author’s “Dedication to the Several Ladies formerly of my Family”refers to the author’s diffidence at encountering “even that degree of publicity which the limitedcirculation of this unpretending volume is likely to incur.” The poems are on traditional subjects,many addressed to family and friends. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 198, no. 1.

POEMS ON LONDON TRADES

74. LIDSTONE, JAMES TORRINGTON SPENCER. The Londoniad: (Complete.) Giving a FullDescription of the Principal Establishments, together withthe most Renowned Patentees, Manufacturers, and Inventorsin the Metropolis of the World. &c., &c. By JamesTorrington Spencer Lidstone, of Toronto, Upper Canada.London: Published under Universal Patronage, 1857. iv,116pp., 8vo. Bound with the original printed pink wrappers(these with imprint “London: Published by the Author, at hisTown Residence, 1, Upper Ashby Street, NorthamptonSquare, 1857”) in modern, but not recent, cloth, spine gilt-lettered, ticket of S. Rothschild-Davidson, Booksellers, onlower pastedown. $375.00One of the earliest editions of this much reprinted and updatedpoem; presumably at least some of the establishments paid asubscription for their inclusion. Among the verses is a pagefor “R. Riviere, Bookbinder”:

Here no machine-work, and no blocks,The connoisseur for ever shocks. . .For the beauties he doth impart

Raises his work unto a glorious Art. . . .Also present are “Col. Sam. Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufactory,” “George Henry Stevens,Decorative Artist in Glass Mosaic,” and many others, mundane and otherwise, all with specifics oftheir trades and precise locations.The number of editions of this title would have to daunt the most intrepid bibliographer: theycertainly extended into the 1870s and at least a stated “Hundredth.” The first one seems to haveappeared in 1856, with this and the present “Complete” 1857 edition very uncommon, and thepresent edition apparently located only at the Bishopsgate Library.

75. LUBY, CATHERINE. The Spirit of the Lakes; or, Mucross Abbey. A Poem, in Three Cantos.With Explanatory Notes. London: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822.xiv, [ii], 208, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, a blank leaf after p. xiv, a subscribers’ list, and a leafof additional subscribers after p. 208; a little minor staining. Contemporary straight-grainedblack sheep gilt, g.e., probably an author’s presentation binding; rubbed but sound. Front flyleafinscribed “Frances Luby. Eliza M: Luby. Rose Ville Killarney.” $550.00

First edition, almost certainly a presentation or possibly a special subscriber’s copy (“Mrs. Luby” ison the printed list) in a deluxe binding. Catherine Luby was, according to O’Donoghue (Poets ofIreland, p. 256) originally “a Tipperary woman, being a relative of T.C. Luby, the Fenian.” Shelater settled in Killarney. Stephen Behrendt in The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing inthe Romantic Period, pp. 10-11, describes this work as

an Irish gothic romance set among the medieval ruins of County Kerry [sic., forKillarney] that is as much a descriptive poem as a narrative one and that reveals theunmistakable influence of Ann Radcliffe’s immensely successful novels.

He goes on to note the poem’s “subtle texturing. . . building slowly to the unhappy climax thatsituates her poem within the cynical, proto-Byronic world of post-Waterloo disenchantment.”Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 206; OCLC records three copies in North America, atCornell, U.C. Davis, and Wellesley.

LARGE PAPER, THE AUTHOR’S FATHER’S COPY

76. [LUCAS, WINIFRED M.]. Lana Caprina. London:Printed for Private Circulation Only, 1888. viii, 31,[1]pp., 4to. The octavo text (6 x 4 inches) hereprinted on large paper (9½ x 6½ inches), with acouple of trial drawings for the illustrated title-pageinserted. Finely bound in purple levant morocco,jansenist, by Riviere & Son, t.e.g., others untrimmed,with the original textured printed wrappers bound in.Engraved bookplate of the author’s father, FredericWilliam Lucas (1842-1932) on front pastedownendpaper. $500.00

First edition of the author’s first book, printed onlarge paper, specially illustrated and sumptuouslybound for presentation to her father. Winifred Lucaswent on to some acclaim as a poet, and was includedin Lady Margaret Sackville’s influential anthology ABook of Verse by Living Women (1910). The presentpoems are obviously influenced by Matthew Arnold,to whom two are written. OCLC records six copies ofan ordinary paper issue, none of this one.

77. MACDONALD, WILLIAM [and SUSANNA HAWKINS]. Poems. Edinburgh: Printed byGeorge Ramsay and Co., for the Author, 1809. viii, 157, [1], 14pp., 12mo. With a subscribers’ listat end. A very nice copy, bound with (for no reason I can determine) “Vol. V” of The Poems andSongs of Susanna Hawkins. Dumfries: Printed for the Authoress, 1841, 60pp. in contemporary halfcalf, gilt spine label. $175.00

First edition of these romantic, picturesque, sometimes rural, and occasionally devotional poems by

a Scottish Roman Catholic priest, dedicated to the Duke of Gordon, and with a couple of poemsabout his family. Seven copies in OCLC. Even scarcer is the volume of Susanna Hawkins’sPoems. She was a dairymaid, for whom the proprietor of the Dumfries Courier, according to J.R.de J. Jackson in Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 150, “printed her little volumes free and she soldthem door to door for fifty years, travelling as far as Manchester to do so.” The first of Hawkins’svolumes appeared in 1829, the last, being the tenth in the series, 1867.

78. [MACKER, JOHN]. The Harp of the Desert; containing the Battle of Algiers, with other pieces inverse. By Ismael Fitzadam, formerly Able Seaman on board the -- Frigate. London: Printed forWhitmore and Fenn, Charing-Cross, 1818. xii, 136pp., sm. 8vo. Contemporary inscription on title,“Maria Nixon. Gardner Street”; some mild staining throughout, mostly to the lower outer margin.Contemporary calf gilt, spine worn with some damage to the upper joint. $200.00

First edition, dedicated to Admiral Lord Exmouth, the author’s preface noting that in spite of thenotable defeat inflicted on the Algerines, “pirates still infest the seas, even to our very shores.”Three copies in OCLC: British Library, National Library of Ireland, and Kansas.

79. MASON, ABRAHAM JOHN. Poetical Essays; by A. J. Mason. Embellished with elevenengravings on wood, executed by the Author, From Designs by the late John Thurston, Esq.London: Printed for the Author, by W. Sears, 44, Paul Street, Finsburg: and Sold by T. Boys, 7,Ludgate Hill, 1822. [viii], 111pp., 8vo, including a four-page list of subscribers, with mountedindia-paper woodcut title vignette and ten illustrations by the author, eight of which still have theiroriginal tissue paper guards. Untrimmed in the original drab boards; backstrip almost entirelymissing, but binding firm. Front pastedown endpaper inscribed “To the Editor of The NewMonthly Magazine From the Author.” $100.00

First edition, presentation copy, with sixteen poems, ten of which are illustrated with Mason’s ownwoodcuts, covering a variety of subjects from war and peace to friendship and death. In 1808, atage fourteen, Mason, an orphan, was apprenticed to engraver Robert Branston, with whom heremained until 1820. In 1821, after five years working as Branston’s assistant, Mason struck out onhis own. OCLC lists six copies in the United States: Harvard, New York Public, UNC-Chapel Hill,Princeton, Penn State, and Stanford.

80. MAVOR, WILLIAM, compiler. The Juvenile Keepsake: consisting of a selection of InstructivePoems, adapted to very early youth. Respectfully inscribed to the Mothers of Families. Compiledby Dr. Mavor. Halifax: Printed & Published by William Milner, 1847. 160pp., 32mo (4½ x 3inches). Engraved frontispiece. Original red cloth gilt, g.e.; spine ends a bit frayed. $20.00

A late, retitled, version of Mavor’s Nursery Garland, originally published by John Harris in 1801.It seems to have been a successful enterprise for its Halifax publisher, with four or five editionsfollowing this one, which appears to be the first. OCLC locates copies at the Australian NationalUniversity, Florida, and Victoria and Albert.

“LINES ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT BURNS”

81. MILLS, J[OHN] H[ENRY]. Trifles, by J. H. Mills, of the Theatre-Royal, Manchester.

Manchester: Printed for W. Graham, Bookseller, No. 35, Market-street-lane, and sold by him andall the Booksellers in Manchester, by Mr. Broster, Chester, and C. Law, Ave-Maria-Lane, London,1806. 120pp., sm. 8vo. Blank upper section of half-title torn away removing an inscription.Untrimmed in the original boards; neatly rebacked. $225.00

First edition of the author’s only publication, with many poems reflecting Scottish influences, suchas “Parody on R. Burns’ Man Was Made to Mourn,” “Lines on the death of Robert Burns andAllen Ramsay,” and “The Foy; or, Scotch Invitation to a Parting Glass: written Extempore onleaving Manchester in 1802.” Other poems include “On Converting a Nail…into a TobaccoStopper,” “On Lord Nelson’s Death,” and “Extempore on a Pipe.” Johnson, Provincial Poetry1789-1839, 618; five copies in OCLC: British Library, Bodleian, NYPL, Stanford, and U.C. Davis.

82. MYERS, ERNEST. Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1877. vii, [i], 122, [2]pp., 8vo, the lasttwo pages being publisher’s advertisements for other volumes of poetry. Some light spotting onfirst and last couple pages, but a nice copy in the original blue cloth, spine gilt. $20.00

First edition, the author’s third book of poetry, following The Puritans (1869), published while hewas a fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, and a translation of Pindar’s Odes (1874). Many of thepoems here dwell on classical subjects and the Mediterranean, such as nine “Rêveries de Voyage”including Florence, Rome, Athens, and Syracuse. Also included are “The Liberation of Dorieus”and “The Sea-Maids’ Music.”

BY THE CHILDREN’S BOOKSELLER

83. NEWBERY, FRANCIS. A Translation of the Second Epistle of the First Book of Horace, toLollius. By F.N. When at the Merchant-Taylor’s School, in 1762,being a task given to the Head Boys for the Easter-Holidays.Printed at the Request of some Friends, who wished to have copies.London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., 1800. 13, [3]pp., 4to.Latin and English text on facing pages, with an erratum correctedin ink on p. 8, this and the following leaf sharing the watermark “J.Whatman 1794”, with the final blank leaf; just a hint of awaterstain at the beginning. Original marbled wrappers. $300.00First and only edition, by the son of the publisher John Newbery andinheritor of his bookselling and patent medicine business. FrancisNewbery had a passion for the violin and for amateur theatricalswhich prevented him taking a university degree, and Dr. Johnsonoffended him by telling him that he had better give his fiddle to thefirst beggar-man he met. Five copies in OCLC: British Library,Manchester, Northwestern, Stanford, and Texas; ESTC addsBirmingham and Bodley.

84. NEWBERY, FRANCIS. Donum Amicis, Verses on Various Occasions. London: Printed for theAuthor by T. Davison, 1815. [viii], 72pp., 8vo. Printed on fine and thick paper, half-title inscribed“John Hoper Esqre from the Author.” Untrimmed in the original reddish-brown boards, printedpaper spine label; almost all the backstrip missing except the label,joints split, but a fine fresh copy. $275.00

First and only edition. Many of the pieces here are from theatricalswritten to be performed by the poet’s children. Among the longerpoems is “The Terrors of the Rod. Occasioned by the Denial that thisInstrument of Correction was used at Ladies Schools.” OCLC andCOPAC locate a dozen copies in American libraries, and three (BL,Bodley, and Cambridge) in the U.K..

A VOICE FROM THE FACTORIES

85. NORTON, CAROLINE ELIZABETH. The Dream, and otherPoems. By the Honble. Mrs. Norton. Dedicated to her Grace theDuchess of Sutherland. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1841. xii,

334pp., 8vo. Engraved portrait by Lewes after Landseer. An attractive copy in green pebbledmorocco gilt, g.e., with ticket “Folthorp. North Street. Brighton.” $125.00

Second edition, following the first of the previous year, with this edition adding a new preface andthe important long poem, “A Voice from the Factories,” on the evils of child labor, at pp. 307-334.NCBEL III, 544.

86. ORME, J. B. Dedicated, by Permission, to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth. Poems. ByJ. B. Orme, Gent. London: Printed for the Author, by G. E. Miles, Great Portland Street; and sold

by Mess. Robinson, Paternoster Row; Crosby and Co. Stationers’ Court;and Earle, Wigmore Street, 1805. viii, 160pp., sm. 8vo. Title inscribed“Vict. C.” [Bound with] GISBORNE, THOMAS. Poems, Sacred andMoral. By Thomas Gisborne, M.A. London: Printed for T. Cadell Jun.and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1798. viii, 118, [2]pp., sm. 8vo, the finaltwo pages being a note and publisher’s advertisement. Half-titleinscribed, “From the Author to Lord Curzon” (inscription faded); thevolume sometime affected by damp with some minor staining andrippling of the text block. Slightly later purple calf, gilt, with the Curzonarms on both sides; slightly rubbed and faded with a mild, but visiblewaterstain. $150.00First edition, Lord Curzon’s copy (Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon,1730-1820). Orme’s work includes poems such as “Ode on the Patrioticand Liberal Subscription, opened at Lloyd’s Coffee-house, for the Benefitof the Widows and Orphans of the Brave Defenders of their Country,”“Lord Nelson’s Victory,” and “Ode to My Dog, Tartar.” Orme’s work hasfive locations in OCLC: British Library, Stanford, U.C. Davis, UCLA, and

Yale. Gisborne’s (by contrast) has over thirty.

THE IRISH GIRL

87. PARKER, SARAH. The Opening of the Sixth Seal; and other Poems. By Sarah Parker, the “IrishGirl.” Ayr: Published by M’Cormick and Gemmell, Advertiser Office, 1846. x, 122pp., 12mo.Original blindstamped rose cloth, spine gilt; a few small signs of wear. $200.00

First edition of the author’s first book, apparently following publication as “The Irish Girl” of somesuccessful poems in periodicals Foremost among these, and included in this book, was “Burns’sFestival” which originally appeared in the Ayr Advertiser in 1844. Her preface declares she wasborn in Newry in 1824, and there are several poems on Ireland including “My own Green Isle.” Afurther edition of her works appeared in Glasgow in 1856, but this little book is rare, with OCLCand COPAC recording only the copy at the British Library.

88. PARKES, BESSIE RAYNER. Ballads and Songs. London: Bell and Daldy, 1863. viii, 216,32pp., 8vo. With the half-title and a 32-page publishers’ catalogue at end. Original pebbled greencloth, spine gilt; inner hinges cracking. $150.00

First edition, the subjects including “The Fate of Sir John Franklin,” “The Black Death,” “MagicRings,” and a seven-page poem titled “Robert Burns. Written for the Anniversary of his Birth.”Three copies in OCLC and COPAC: Aberdeen, British Library and National Library of Scotland.

89. [PAUL, Sir JOHN DEAN]. The Man of Ton, a Satire. London:Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828. [iv], 112, 8pp.,8vo. With the half-title, and a publisher’s catalogue at end.Untrimmed in the original grey wrappers, upper cover with apaper title-label; sewing partly defective, extremities worn andchipped but holding, some corners turned. $75.00

First edition, a kind of Rake’s Progress for the post-Regency,following the rich young protagonist from Eton and Cambridge togambling, a dalliance with an opera dancer, the hunt, flirtation and“intense flirtation,” debts, dunning, and finally “the catastrophe.”

IN VERSE, “TOTALLY UNFIT FOR REPRESENTATION”

90. PAYNTER, DAVID WILLIAM. King Stephen: or, the Battle of Lincoln: An Historical Tragedy.Manchester: Printed by J. Leigh, Sun Entry, Market-Street, 1822. xviii, [iv], 57, [1]pp., 8vo. Oldinkstamp and blindstamps of the now-dispersed Wigan Public Library. Untrimmed in laternineteenth-century half brown morocco, spine gilt; rubbed but sound. $50.00

First edition, in verse, and with a long preface complaining of the play’s treatment by the theatremanagers, especially Edmund Kean who after three months’ silence pronounced it “totally unfit forrepresentation.” Three copies in OCLC: British Library, Manchester, and Yale.

91. PEEBLES, WILLIAM. Poems: Consisting Chiefly of Odes and Elegies. Glasgow: Printed by R.Chapman. Sold by W. Turnbull, Brash & Reid, and J. Smith & Son, Glasgow. . . Vernor, Hood &Sharpe, London, 1810. [iii]-176pp., 12mo. Without the half-title. Contemporary blind-embossedcalf gilt; a little rubbed but an attractive copy. $125.00

First edition, by a contemporary of Burns who was satirized as “Poet Willie” in a couple of thelatter’s poems. Peebles’s work here includes “The Complaint: On the Northern EmigrationsWritten in the Year 1774” and “Elegiac Verses on the Author’s Birth Day. He Bewails the Loss ofa Parent. January, 1779.” Unlike Burns he lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1826, and was for yearsminister at Newton-upon-Ayr. Nine copies in OCLC.

ON CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

92. PRATT, SAMUEL JACKSON. The Lower World. A Poem, in Four Books, with Notes.London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, Goswell street; for Sharpe and Hailes, oppositeAlbany, Piccadilly, 1810. xii, 148pp., sm. 8vo (but pp. [vii-viii], the errata, here bound at the end).With the half-title. Contemporary sprinkled calf, spine fully gilt with label; short crack in theupper joint. Front pastedown inscribed “Charlotte Welch 1814” with a modern inscriptionopposite. $275.00

First edition of Pratt’s last work, in support of a parliamentary bill introduced by Lord Erskine toprevent cruelty to animals. As a contemporary notice in The Monthly Review put it, Pratt, “has sothoroughly interested our feelings, that we cannot be such [a] brute, as to cavil at little defects,when humanity to the Lower World of animated beings is the glowing theme of his verse.” As toParliament, Pratt pleads for its members to imagine the animals:

Think that they raise to you th’ imploring eye,The piteous look, deep wound, and piercing cry;

Victims of wanton pride and deadly rage,O let them all your eloquence engage;

The hard of heart, a moral sense to teach. . . .Much less common than Pratt’s earlier works, with nine copies in OCLC.

93. QUESTED, J[OHN]. My Leisure Hours, or Poems on Various Subjects. By J. Quested,Willesborough. Second Edition, Revised Corrected and Considerably Enlarged. Canterbury:Printed by G. Wood (Herald Office,) High Street, 1825. [iv], 99, [1]pp., 8vo. Untrimmed in theoriginal red boards; backstrip chipped and the lower cover all but detached. $125.00

“Second Edition, Revised Corrected and Considerably Enlarged,” in fact half again as long as thefirst edition of 1821, which contained 63 pages. A preliminary leaf reads, in full, “Preface. I hatePrefaces, I never read them. Ergo, Ought I to write them?” The poems include “On Hearing aFriend Say, He Would Never Marry but for Money,” “Address to the Evening Star on Its GradualDisappearance,” and “To My Donkey. Written Many Years Ago.” The last poem in the book is“Addressed to a Would Be Critic, Whose spiteful remarks were so ridiculously stupid, that, didthey not combine falsehood with illiberal criticism, they would pass unnoticed.” Neither this northe first edition is in Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839; three copies of this edition in OCLC:British Library, University of California, Davis, and UCLA.

94. RAYMOND, GEORGE. Chronicles of England: A Metrical History. London: William Smith,113, Fleet Street, 1842. xxviii, 274pp., 8vo, with an inserted “Corrigenda” slip at end. Engraved

frontispiece showing the famous portrait of Queen Elizabeth I in ruffs, pearls, and a mantle of eyesand ears, woodcut vignette on title; the leaves largely unopened. Original blind-stamped greencloth, spine gilt-titled; spine and edges faded with a short split at foot of upper joint. $50.00

First edition, from the Norman Conquest in 1066 through William IV in 1830, with extensivehistorical footnotes.

95. [RHODES, WILLIAM BARNES], “Cornelius Crambo.” Eccentric Tales. In Verse. London:Printed for S. Tipper, 1808. [xvi], 140, [4]pp., sm. 8vo.Folding hand-colored engraved frontispiece by J.A.Atkinson, with the terminal publisher’s catalogue;occasional minor soiling. Bound with Charles Cotton’sScarronides, Whitehaven: J. Dunn, 1776, 144pp., in earlynineteenth-century half calf, spine label missing. $175.00First edition of an amusing series of poems, occasionallyattributed to George Colman. The frontispiece illustrates thescene in “Tom Shuttle and Blousalinda” where the haplesshusband peeking through the window sees

There Blousalinda, full of joy,Confess’d by am’rous titters,

Was sitting with the butcher’s boyDrinking of gin and bitters.

96. RITSON, JOSEPH, editor. The Caledonian Muse: A Chronological Selection of Scotish Poetryfrom the Earliest Times. London: Printed, and now first published, by Robert Triphook, 1821. iv,232 pp., 8vo. Engraved portrait and vignette illustrations. An attractive copy in contemporarycalf; expertly rebacked with the original label. $200.00

First edition, the original 1785 sheets with two leaves of 1821preliminaries and an engraved silhouette portrait of Ritson. Shortlybefore the present work was supposed to be published in 1785, a firedestroyed part of the printer’s warehouse along with the manuscript ofRitson’s introductory essay.

NOT IN OCLC

97. ROBERTS, SAMUEL. The Sweet Psalmist of Israel: or, the Youthof David; with other Poems. Sheffield: Printed by S. Harrison, 1853.86,[2]pp., 18mo. Original red cloth gilt; faded. $125.00

First edition, intended for “the Young reader” with a reminder that thenarrative contains “poetic licence.” The occasional poems include“Inscription on Queen Mary’s Window in Sheffield Manor Castle.”COPAC records a single copy, at Leeds; no copy in OCLC.

“ONE OF THOSE BOOKS. . . DIFFICULT TO PRAISE”

98. ROGERS, JAMES E. THOROLD. Epistles, Satires andEpigrams. London: Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street,Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty the Queen, 1876. [iv], 182, [6]pp., 8vo. With four pages ofpublisher’s advertisements at end. Largely unopened in the original cobalt blue cloth with blackframing, spine gilt. $25.00

First edition of economic historian and politician Thorold Rogers’s foray into poetry, a book theWestminster Review called “one of those books which it would be difficult to praise.”

JANE AUSTEN’S SCHOOLMATE?

99. ROWDEN, FRANCES ARABELLA. The Pleasures of Friendship; a Poem, in Two Parts.London: Printed by A.J. Valpy, Took’s Court, Chancery-Lane; sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees andOrme, 1810. x, [ii], 139, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. With a leaf of publisher’s advertisement after the

preface. Contemporary calf gilt; worn with the spine label partly chipped. $350.00First edition. Miss Rowden taught at a school belonging to the St. Quentins inHans Place, London. Lady Caroline Lamb was one of her pupils, and the authorherself attended an earlier incarnation of the same school in Reading, her timethere probably overlapping with Jane Austen’s. This poem, intended for “thejuvenile class,” sets forth the history of friendship from “its consolation to ourfirst Parents after their Fall.” Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 281, no.2(a). OCLC records four copies in the U.S.A.: Illinois, U.C. Davis, UCLA, andYale.

DENISE LEVERTOV’S SHELLEY

100. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Miscellaneous and PosthumousPoems. London: William Benbow, 252, High-Holborn, 1826. [ii], 356pp.,18mo. With a number of pencil marks throughout highlighting particularuses of poetic language. An early inscription dated 1858 appears on thetitle, and “Denise Levertoff” in ink on the front free endpaper, with the offsetof an ownership label with her address on Glover Circle in Somerville,Mass. on the front pastedown. The text block is intact, but the circa 1850

half leather binding is half gone, lacking the lower cover and bottom half of the spine, and theupper cover with the top half of the spine detached. $275.00

A significant early pirated collection of Shelley’s poems, one of the first posthumous collectionsadding from earlier publications, and a text sometimes offered at high prices. But this copy hasmore interest because of its provenance. The original “Levertoff” spelling of Denise Levertov’slast name suggests this was an early acquisition, but the ownership label offset has her Somervilleaddress at the house she and her husband acquired in 1973. I would very much like to think thatthe pencil markings in the text of this copy are Levertov’s, and certainly they highlight unusualphrasings and lines of thought. Those more familiar with her work can make a better judgment,and I leave this inadequate catalogue note with the final observation that one of Levertov’s majorawards was the Shelley Memorial in 1984. Her manuscripts are now at Stanford.

101. SHORT, BERNARD. Rude Rhymes, with Some Songs. Belfast: Printed by F. D. Finlay, 1,Corn-Market, 1824. [ii], 120pp.12mo, the last eleven pages being a list of subscribers. Engravedportrait and an additional engraved title incorporating a vignette of a woman reading under ariverside tree and a dedication to the Marquess Wellesley; some light spotting, but an unusuallynice copy, untrimmed in the original drab boards, pink paper spine with printed label. $300.00

First edition, the author’s second work, following Rural and Juvenile Poems (1821). Many of thepoems are on local subjects, including a long one on Armagh Church-Yard, “Molyneux's Demesne,or the Vision at the Lake,” an ode to Armagh native George Ensor, and “The Juvenile Adventures

of a Gentleman, a native of the town of Newry.” In spite of the long subscribers’ list, OCLCrecords only a single copy, at Cambridge, to which COPAC adds one more at the British Library.

102. SLIGHT, HENRY. A Metrical History of Portsmouth; with Delineations, Topographical,Historical, and Descriptive, of this Port and Arsenal; Being a Description in Verse of the mostremarkable Epochs in its History, Ancient and Modern, Civil, Naval and Military - Its PublicEdifices - The Garrison, Dock-Yard, &c. - The Towns of Portsea and Gosport, and the surroundingCountry - with every object worthy of observation, for its History, Antiquity, or beauty ofsituation. Interspersed with many Original Anecdotes, Tales, Biographical Notes, andCharacteristic Illustrations. By Henry Slight, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons inLondon, and Surgeon to the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, &c. Portsmouth: Printed byHollingsworth & Price; White-Horse-Street; Sold by S. Mills, and Mottley and Harrison,Portsmouth. . . and by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Pater-noster-Row, London, 1820. viii, 136pp.,8vo, with a three-page list of subscribers. Contemporary half calf, spine gilt; quite rubbed. $125.00

First edition, beginning with “Porta; or, the Rise of Portsmouth: a Tale, in Four Cantos” whichopens in the year 501 A.D., and continuing to explore the history, landmarks, and countrysidesurrounding the port. Four copies in OCLC: British Library, Bodleian, Stanford, and UCLA.

“A FAIRY TALE,” “THE VAMPYRE,” AND “SPECTRE OF WEIGH HILL”

103. STAGG, JOHN. The Minstrel of the North; or Cumbrian Legends. Being a Poetical Miscellany ofLegendary, Gothic, and Romantic Tales. Manchester: Printed by Mark Wardle, Bottom of Market-Street, for the Author, and sold by J. Blacklock, Royal Exchange, London, 1817. [viii], 352pp.,8vo. Some leaves at the end very carelessly opened with ragged margins well clear of text, but anuntrimmed copy, handsomely bound in half red morocco antique, spine gilt. $150.00

Possibly a third edition or issue, not so stated, by the blind poet of Cumberland. The preface noteshis willingness to capitalize on “the present perversion of taste, and the romance mania soprevalent now-a-days.” Most of the poems in this book were first published in 376pp. in 1810.Another edition appeared in 1816 with the same pagination as this one, and I assume this 1817 textis a reissue with an altered imprint. The present text differs from the 1810 edition by dropping a16-page poem called “Sibert and Eleanor” and adding four new ones, including “Spectre of WeighHill,” “Mary the Maid of the Moor,” and “Elegy on Johanna Southcott.”

104. STENNETT, CHARLES B. Fugitive Pieces. By the Rev. C. B. Stennett. Cheltenham: Printedfor G. A. Williams, Library; J. Booker, New Bond Street, London; and F. Vigurs, Stroudwater,1819. [vi], 90pp., 12mo. [Bound with] GAFFEY, MICHAEL. A Panegyric on the Late Rev.Rowland Broomhead, Forty-two years a Catholic Priest at Manchester. Manchester: Printed andpublished by J. A. Robinson, 44, Deansgate. . . . Sold also by Mr. A. Cuddon, 62, Crown-street,

Finsbury Square London, [1822]. [35, 1]pp., 12mo, with p. [35] mispaginated “20.” Fine copies,bound together in handsome contemporary half calf gilt. $575.00

Two rare Catholic poetical works in first editions, Stennett’s writtenin remarkably free verse. Stennett served as a lieutenant in the NorthYork Regiment., and afterwards took Catholic orders and taught atSt. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. The poems here include “TheVictim of Seduction”

With seeming truth, the wretch, he pays hisvows - affection on his lips, though lurking poisonfills his blacken’d soul. . . .

Others are “On seeing a Human Skull,” “On the End of the World,”and “I will laugh at your destruction.” Stennett later sparred withpamphleteer Sir Harcourt Lees, an opponent of Roman Catholicismin Ireland.As to the second work, I can trace no biographical details of the poetMichael Gaffey, although his subject, Rev. Rowland Broomhead(1751-1820), is generally considered one of the key figures in theCatholic revival in England. Neither work is in Johnson, ProvincialPoetry 1789-1839; of the Stennett OCLC and COPAC record theBritish Library copy, and of Gaffey’s poem a copy at DurhamUniversity.

105. STEVENSON, MISS. Homely Musings, By a RusticMaiden. Kilmarnock: Printed for the Author, 1870. 115,[1]pp., 8vo. Essentially as new in the original embossed rustcloth, upper cover gilt-titled. $125.00First edition. Poems include “Is a Woman’s Worth to be knownby the number of Sweethearts she has?” and “Jeanie Fleming, orthe Beef-loving Lass.” OCLC and COPAC locate five copies,four in the U.K. and one at the University of Iowa.

PRESENTATION COPY

106. STRICKLAND, AGNES. The Seven Ages of Woman,and Other Poems. London: Hurst, Chance, & Co., 1827. viii,152pp., sm. 8vo. Half-title inscribed in pencil “With MissStricklands Compliments to her Respected Friend JanePorter.” Original drab boards; chipped and worn, the paperspine label rubbed but still legible. $200.00First edition, an engaging association, as an old catalogue sliploosely inserted puts it, “given by the author of The Lives of the

Queens of England to the author of The Scottish Chiefs.” The inscription is rather flamboyant withextended crossings of “t”s etc., and it seems a little odd for it to be in pencil, but the hand is verylike that seen in Strickland’s letters of the period.

“ON THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR”

107. [TALFOURD, THOMAS NOON]. Poems, on Various Subjects, including a Poem on theEducation of the Poor; an Indian Tale; and the Offering of Isaac, a Sacred Drama. London: Printedby A. J. Valpy, Took’s Court, Chancery Lane. Sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown,Paternoster Row, London; and Rusher, Reading. &c. &c. [1811]. vi, [ii], ii, [3]-244, [2]pp., sm.8vo. With the half-title and a terminal leaf of advertisements, first two leaves with ownershipinscription of Job Lousley dated 1843 with his manuscript annotations concerning Talfourd’sauthorship: “very scarce and valuable and interesting Book especially to a Berkshire man.”Untrimmed in the original drab boards; upper cover detached. $250.00

First edition of Talfourd’s first book, beginning with a long poem “On the Education of the Poor.Addressed to Mr. Lancaster.” Talfourd went on to become an important attorney, defending

Edward Moxon in his prosecution for publishing Shelley’s poems. Talfourd also knew CharlesLamb and edited works by him. OCLC locates five copies (Cornell, Morgan, Newberry, NYPL,and Princeton), to which COPAC adds British Library. Job Lousley, who owned this copy, was aBritish farmer and antiquarian with a particular interest in language; he was a major contributor toA Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Berkshire, London, 1852.

PRIVATELY PRINTED

108. THURLOW, EDWARD HOVEL, Lord. Select Poems of Edward Hovel Thurlow, LordThurlow. Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1821. [iv], 92pp., 8vo. With the half-title, frontfree endpaper inscribed “Mrs. Hulse. The gift of Eliza Thurlow. March 10th, 1823.” Originalrose boards, morocco spine label; extremities slightly chipped. $50.00

First edition. A number of copies are found with a portrait frontispiece; others, like this one andthat in the Pforzheimer collection, clearly never had it. Among the poems here are “On the Poemof Mr. Rogers, entitled ‘An Epistle to a Friend,’” which Byron once tried to read out loud but, asThomas Moore reported, “was unable to get beyond the first two words,” without causing allpresent to dissolve into fits of laughter. Later Byron sent Moore a parody, parts of which the latterconsidered unprintable. Moore also had unkind things to say about Thurlow in the EdinburghReview, but Charles Lamb admired one of Thurlow’s poems enough to copy it into Coleridge’snotebook, and many of the sonnets and other poems in this volume were widely admired. Martin,Privately Printed Books, p. 275.

109. TOWNSEND, CHAUNCEY HARE. Poems. London: Printed for Thomas Boys, 7 Ludgate Hill,1821. [iv], xi, [xii], 360, [2]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved title by John Pye after F. Turner with avignette of a buck beside a stream; some adhesion damage at pp. 354-355 with the loss of a dozenor so letters across three lines on p. 354. Prettily bound in contemporary polished calf gilt, spineelaborately gilt, marbled endpapers. $40.00

First edition, the front free endpaper inscribed “From the Author.” The poems number over 150,some of which were written when Townsend was a teenager studying at Eton. Chauncey HareTownsend, or Townshend (1798-1868) was educated Trinity College, Cambridge, where he wonthe Chancellor’s medal for his poem, “Jerusalem,” the first in this volume, at commencement in1817. He began corresponding with Robert Southey, to whom he dedicated this work, in 1816;there are poems addressed both to Southey and to John Clare. Townsend later became close friendswith Charles Dickens, who acted as his literary executor.

110. TOZER, ELIAS. Devonshire and Other Original Poems; With some account of Ancient Customs,Superstitions, and Traditions. Exeter: Printed and Published at the Office of the Devon WeeklyTimes, 1873. [ii], 94pp. 8vo. Original stamped pebbled cloth, upper cover with gilt. $45.00

First edition, full of poetic homage to nature and with a section of poems on “AncientSuperstitions” including tales of pixies. OCLC locates thirteen copies, five of them in NorthAmerica.

PRESENTATION COPY

111. TUPPER, MARTIN F. Three Hundred Sonnets. London: Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co., 1860. viii,300, [4]pp., 4to. Verso of front free endpaper inscribed “For The Honorable Mrs. Bruce with thekind regards of Martin Farquar Tupper, Albury.March 13, 1863”, with a publishers’ list at end.Original blind-embossed rust cloth, spine gilt, g.e., by Westleys, with ticket. $50.00

First edition, presentation copy, by the author of Proverbial Philosophy, the book which becamethe manual of Victorian ideology. These sonnets embody the same principles.

112. WALKER, JOHN. Poems in English, Scotch, and Gaelic, on Various Subjects. By John Walker,Farmer, Luss. Glasgow: Printed by Young, Gallie & Co. Sold by M. Ogle. . . & Cochran, London,1817. [iv], viii, 146pp., 8vo. Etched portrait frontispiece. A fine fresh copy, untrimmed in theoriginal drab boards, later but not modern paper backstrip with printed paper label. $150.00

First edition, published by request of the author’s friends and with the verses extending throughouthis long life. Many are on the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, others on domestic affairs.

DANTE

113. WHARTON, RICHARD. Fables: Consisting of Select Parts from Dante, Berni, Chaucer, andAriosto. Imitated in English Heroic Verse by Richard Wharton, Esq. M. A. London: Printed by T.Bensley, Bolt Court, for Payne and Mackinlay, 87, Strand, 1804. [ii], 142pp., 8vo. Untrimmed inthe original blue boards; rebacked with a modern printed paper label. Front free endpaperinscribed “Doctor Headlam With the Authors respectful Compts.” $125.00

First edition, presentation copy. Wharton’s work is a combination of loose translation, imitation,and retelling in the style of John Dryden. It includes an early English translation of Cantos 3, 32,and 33 excerpted from Dante’s Inferno.

114. WHITE, HENRY KIRKE. Clifton Grove, a Sketch in Verse, with other Poems. London: Printedby N. Biggs. . . for Vernor and Hood, Poultry. And sold by E.B. Robinson, J. Dunn, and the otherBooksellers in Nottingham, 1803. xiv, 111, [3]pp., 8vo. With a terminal leaf of publishers’advertisements. A lovely copy in late nineteenth-century blue morocco gilt by F. Bedford, top edgegilt, others untrimmed. Book-label of John Sparrow on verso of the front free endpaper. $400.00

First edition of Kirke White’s first book, published in the hope of funding his studies. In thededication to the Duchess of Devonshire, White describes his efforts as the “trifling effusions of avery youthful muse,” this deferential statement being echoed by the Monthly Review of February1804, which taunted the young poet with the suggestion that should he ever gain the benefits ofstudy “he will, doubtless, produce better sense and better rhymes.” Kirke White managed to get toCambridge at last, but at the cost of ruining his health: he died in his college rooms in 1806.Robert Southey edited his remains, and in death Kirke White became famous, although now largelyneglected. One or two library records suggest this book was issued with a portrait. It was not,although a later portrait is occasionally inserted: see, e.g. the note to the Wellesley College copy:“Portrait of Henry Kirke White, inserted. Yellow calf, label, gilt, by Riviere and Son.”

115. WHITE, JOHN NESBITT. Poems. By the late John Nesbitt White. Doncaster: Printed by W.Sheardown, 1806. viii, ii, 109pp., 8vo. Title inscribed “From the Father of the Author to B.Cooke, Owston.” Handsomely printed with wide margins, and bound in contemporary mottledcalf gilt; spine a bit rubbed, and with an old ink historical library stamp on the first page ofpreface, no other markings. $125.00

First edition, privately printed for presentation, published the year after the author’s death at theage of seventeen. The poems are individually dated, and address Bonaparte, the People ofYorkshire, the seasons, memory, a drooping violet, and various young ladies. Johnson, ProvincialPoetry 1789-1839, 961.

116. WILLOUGHBY, R. The Plaintive Muse, or, Poems Sacred to Religion. Derby: Printed by G.Wilkins, Queen Street 1820. vi, [vi], 73, [3]pp., sm. 8vo. With a subscribers’ list, and a table ofcontents at end. A fine copy in contemporary half black roan, spinegilt-ruled but unlettered; just a little rubbed. $150.00

First edition, with a largely local list of subscribers, the poetry including“Fall and Recovery of Man,” “Israel’s Salvation,” and “On a Statue ofTime.” Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 973, calling for [14]preliminary pages, not confirmed either by Stanford (the Johnson copy)or U.C. Davis, which give online paginations matching the present copy;one other copy (British Library) in OCLC.

117. WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Selections from the Poems ofWilliam Wordsworth, Esq. Chiefly for the use of Schools and YoungPersons. London: Edward Moxon, 64, New Bond Street, 1831. xvi,365, [3]pp., 8vo. With a leaf of publisher’s advertisements at end.Original drab boards, paper label; spine chipped and a bit cracked.Bookplate of Percival F. Hinton. $175.00

First edition of this selection, with a preface by the editor Joseph Hine,

clearly with Wordsworth’s permission as there were presentation copies from him. The selectionhas endured: it includes, among others, “I Wandered Lonely” and “Tintern Abbey.”

“PRAYER OF THE POLISH PILGRIM”

118. [ZORAWSKI, V. S.]. A Few Words from an Expatriated. Weymouth: Printed and Published byB. Benson, 1842. 12pp., 12mo. Disbound. $275.00

Presumably the first edition, apparently unrecorded, although another edition of the same title wasprinted at Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1844, located only at the British Library which identifies theauthor. The pamphlet opens with a prose “Prayer” and continues with such poems as “The Exile” -“My own green fields! my native fields!/ Oh give me back that dear abode!” - “Lines on thesubjugation of Poland,” “The Polish Exile to his Country. Written on the 29th of November, 1841,being the Eleventh Anniversary of the Polish Revolution,” and a final, longest, poem simply titled“Poland.”