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BRITISH AND IRISH POETRY 1800-1888

1. ADAMS, THOMAS. The Poetical Works of Thomas Adams, Warkworth: consisting of the Battle 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 the author was close. In addition to the “Battle of Trafalgar” in two cantos, there are miscellaneous poems “On the Percy Family,” “On Seeing a Dead Body,” “The Spaniard's Complaint,” and “The Astrologer’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 Amatory Authors. London: Printed for J. Bell, No. 148, Oxford-Street, 1805. xv, 64pp., sm. 8vo. With the half-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. . . under the genial influence of a more southern sun” - was aged sixteen to nineteen. The editor apologizes for 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 of Gloves, as a Forfeit for a Kiss Stolen While She Was Asleep on a Sofa,” and “When Venus First Rose 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 Bond Street, 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 with a printed spine label. $275.00 “A New Edition,” following the first of 1806, and containing two of the riddles Jane Austen included in Emma: Kitty, a fair but frozen maid, Kindled a flame I yet deplore. . . and My 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 no man alive is so guilty of blunders,” pokes fun at printers.

4. [ANONYMOUS] - The Day of Waterloo. A Poem. With Notes, Illustrating the Principal Events of 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 it comes from the two inscriptions on the title: “Robt. Nelson, Upper Queen St. School” and, on either side, “Mary Nelson.” Various scribbles and a little smear of red accompany these, along with grubbiness and some slight marginal tears at edges throughout, with a longer tear into the preface leaf with no loss of paper or text. Contemporary half calf; equally rubbed and worn, with a 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 by schoolchildren. OCLC locates two copies, National Library of Ireland and British Library. COPAC adds 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 a wide foliate border, spine gilt, g.e.; a little rubbed. Half-title inscribed “From James White, to Jane Gibbon. 29th June 1822.” $275.00 First edition of these unabashedly romantic poems, many of them forthright declarations of love, a couple of them with a twist, as “To a Lady - with some Snuff”: For where were the use to lament and complain When 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 University of 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 is probably 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 the printers to have been Coutas & Co. The work is dedicated to Viscount Morpeth, and the editor’s preface, which notes that the volume does not include “sacred and devotional poetry,” is dated York, Dec. 10, 1833. One of the poems, “The Use of Tears,” is by the dedicatee; many of the others are by Romantic poets, greater and lesser. Not in COPAC; OCLC records a copy at Cornell and 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 and additional 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 which had the date 1838; the preface, signed “T.H.B.” is dated “Bedford, November 1838.” All but a few of the poems are nineteenth-century, with several by “L.E.L.” and Mrs. Hemans. OCLC records this issue in a copy at the Lilly Library, and the 1838 issue at Cambridge, Victoria and Albert, and Harvard.

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 engraved frontispiece by Howison after Stanley. Original straight-grained embossed cloth, upper cover and spine 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-ranging Romantic miscellany with many lesser-known poets, especially women, but also including Wordsworth, 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 Bodleian copies. 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 the original 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 a cherished memory of the dying one by surviving friends.” OCLC records an 1847 edition at Cambridge 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 a glimpse of Judgment Day, with elegant illustrations (if only there were more) after the John Martin of Paradise Lost fame.

11. BAILEY, PHILIP JAMES. The Angel World, and other Poems. By Philip James Bailey. Author of “Festus.” London: W. Pickering, 1850. Two copies, each [iii], 111pp., sm. 8vo. Woodcut frontispiece, 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 slip tipped 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, each with 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 various publisher’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, spine gilt; 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 the half-title and a terminal leaf of errata; one or two minor spots. A fresh and attractive copy in brown 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 of publication she was Margaret Harries; she married Cornwell Baron Wilson, a lawyer, in 1819. She notes 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 have so justly called forth the admiration of the world, the Author cannot even be suspected 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 killing a 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: Printed and 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 the author’s presentation, in full rose calf, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, spine fully gilt with double 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 later nineteenth-century bookplate of Sir Alfred Sherlock Gooch on the pastedown. $425.00 First edition of a poem set in ninth-century East Anglia when, as the author notes, “there was anciently 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 Sherlock Gooch. 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 in pagination as in all copies (due, I suspect, to the single leaf of “Notes” at the end being printed as part of gathering “T”). A nice large copy, bound with two other works (William Robert Spencer’s Poems, 1811, and Maria Montolieu’s Enchanted Plants, 1800, both first editions), in contemporary flame calf; neatly rebacked with a gilt spine label. $400.00 First edition, with a verse preface explaining the poems, e.g. In Oswald’s tale she aimed to show What 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 noting the 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 North America: 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 vignettes throughout, 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 the first true reprint of Blake’s 1789 and 1794 editions, unlike the 1839 edition which is unfaithful to Blake’s original printings. In addition to Songs of Innocence and Experience it includes miscellaneous poems copied from Blake’s manuscripts, two of which are printed here for the first time.

17. [BLELOCH, ARCHIBALD]. Kosmogonia. A Glance at the Old World in which are set forth certain Missing Links of the Darwinian Chain. By Lake-Elbe. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1878. [vii], 71, [1]pp., 4to. Frontispiece, title vignette, and a number of caricature illustrations, including one of Darwin as a monkey, confronted by a large and grinning dog, with a terminal page of publishers’ advertisements. Nice copy in the original green cloth, ruled in black with a large gilt title on upper cover, g.e.; just a little wear at foot of spine. $225.00 First edition, a wonderful satire in verse on Darwin’s Origin of Species, the author having a particularly good time inventing and illustrating the “certain missing links.” The dinosaurs, for example, “came to breathe the air, and wield their strength,/ And fit the world for better life at length.” Eight copies in OCLC, including Smithsonian, Southern Cal., and Wagner College in the U.S.A.

UNRECORDED, ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN PENNY NUMBERS 18. BROADER, MARK. The Muse of Spaldington, consisting of Sonnets, Odes and Elegies, by Mark 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 to note by the author at p. 64, which must have consisted of eight originals of four leaves each, as is consistent with the placement of the poems, and two final numbers with the preliminaries and appendices including a list of subscribers and the statement “A complete set, consisting of ten Numbers, will be sent (carriage free) to any Individual on receiving ten postage stamps.” Original roan- backed marbled boards. $400.00 First and only edition, poems for “his Fellow-Yorkshiremen, who have, like himself, sung and whistled at the Plough.” Most of the poems are local and cheerful, but there’s one titled “Briton’s reply to the 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 or otherwise. It is typographically somewhat unusual and attractive, and is 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 on the Minds of Children, some of the most Striking Events of each Reign. London: Printed for Darton, 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 grubby with 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 close The barb’rous course which Mary chose? . . . The author was a schoolteacher, as is shown in the dedication of this book. Osborne Collection, p. 161 (this edition, with note that the verses are “in the manner of Ann Taylor’s ‘My Mother’”). See also Jackson, Romantic Poetry by 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. Sold by Messrs. Longman and Co. London; and T. Sowler, Manchester, 1827. vii, 89, [3]pp., 12mo, the last two pages being an index. Engraved frontispiece. [Bound with] ARNOTT, DAVID. The Witches of Keil’s Glen, A Dramatic Fragment; with Other Poems. Cupar: Printed by R. Tullis, (Printer to the University of St Andrews,) and Sold 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 black calf 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 Have Met Again” (illustrated in the work's frontispiece), “On the Death of Lord Byron,” “I Met Twa Cronies, Ere Yestreen,” and “Drink, Drink, Empty and Fill Again.” Arnott’s collection includes forty-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 of particulars, drawn from sources inaccessible to former biographers. To which is subjoined an Appendix, consisting of a Panegyrical Ode, and a Demonstration of Burns’ superiority to every other 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 title by Wedgewood (these rather spotted as usual). Near-contemporary half calf; worn with the spine label missing. $100.00 First edition under Paul’s editorship, one of the more important posthumous editions, in which not only appear his new life, a glossary, and other bits of apparatus, but also a previously unpublished poem 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 Times and 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 last blank 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 printed wrappers; stitching mostly missing with the wrappers and leaves essentially disjunct, with the inkstamp of the now-dispersed Wigan Public Library on the verso of the title and a small call number on the upper wrapper. $425.00 First edition, rare, contrasting the glories of past English poets with the “sad prostituted Genius” of Byron 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, at Chetham’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 Nassau Street, [1871]. xii, 284pp., 8vo. Half-title and title page unopened (these very slightly 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 “Drinking Song,” “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 in the 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 are strikingly attractive examples of Victorian publishers’ thrifty use of paper in hand, in spectacular condition. The poem itself appears to be very rare, with no record in COPAC, and OCLC locating only a single copy at Louisiana State.

25. [BUSK, HANS]. The Banquet: in Three Cantos. London: Published by Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819. viii, 144pp., 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and additional title, both printed on India paper and mounted. Untrimmed in the original drab boards; worn and rather grubby, with a large printed circulating label on the upper cover, apparently for a private group, with the first of sixteen names a “Mr. Renoüard.” $400.00 First edition, founded on the French Gastronomia of Berchoux, and in its own right an attractive and witty poem on “the antiquity, utility, and vitality of the science of eating, as well as its anteriority 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 by Barlett 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 joint cracked but firm, spine ends slightly chipped. $350.00 First edition. Many of Butler’s poems were inspired by specific sermons, such as “The Grand Inquiry” 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 the half-title, and with extensive, closely-written additions of “cancelled passages. . . from Galignani’s edition” 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 calf gilt, 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 on pp. [v] and 5 corrected. The publisher Cawthorn, as T.J. Wise (Byron, I, 22) noted, certainly printed more copies than the thousand initially bargained for in the first edition, “from standing types, and disposed of these to his own advantage.” What makes this copy perhaps more appealing is the care with which an early reader has annotated it to allow comparison of the original text with the later, supposedly unexpurgated, one.

BYRON APOCRYPHA IN EARLY MANUSCRIPT 28. BYRON, GEORGE GORDON NOEL, Lord. Two contemporary manuscripts of apocryphal Byron poems, inserted in The Works. . . In Two Volumes. [Together with six other volumes of Byron’s works including a number of first editions, the whole probably collected by and uniformly bound 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 the European Magazine inserted as frontispiece to Vol. I; Vol. III containing two inserted pieces in early manuscript: (1) “Ode” beginning “Oh, shame to thee, Land of the Gaul!” in nine stanzas on two folio leaves (slightly torn due to insertion but no text lost); and (2)“Ode to the Tax Year, or Fifth of April,” five stanzas on both sides of a single quarto leaf; the majority of the printed works lacking half-titles and advertisements, the copy of Marino Faliero in Vol. VI very grubby, the rest of the individual works generally in good order. Uniform blind-ruled calf; one upper cover with a gouge at the top, sometime (not recently) uniformly rebacked with gilt spines, and new endpapers windowed 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 this cataloguer’s opinion) for the presence of the two apocryphal poems in manuscript, of which more below. The first two volumes are John Murray’s first collection of Byron’s Works, 2 vols. containing a sammelband of individual pieces most with their original title-pages preserved, including the fourteenth and last revised edition of The Giaour and first editions of The Corsair and Prisoner of Chillon. Vol. III continues the Works and is so titled, containing, in addition to the two manuscripts, first editions of Mazeppa, Manfred, Hebrew Melodies, Poems (1816), Monody on the Death of Sheridan, and reprints of The Lament of Tasso, The Age of Bronze, and The Island. Vol. IV contains reprints of Hours of Idleness and English Bards; Vol. V a first edition of Sardanapalus and a reprint of The Deformed Transformed; Vol. VI a first edition of Werner and a poor copy of Marino Faliero; and Vols. VII-VIII contain the small paper first editions of Don Juan, all but the first two cantos (which are, as always in this format, a “New Edition”). Of the two manuscript poems, the first ode beginning “Oh, shame to thee, Land of the Gaul!” appeared in a spurious collection of Byron’s Poems on his Domestic Circumstances in 1816. It was reprinted in various early editions of Byron’s collected works, but its authorship began to be seen as suspect, with one critic noting the poem’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 ‘Childe Harold.’” The second manuscript, “Ode to the Tax Year, or Fifth of April,” is more obscure, and to the best of my knowledge has not previously been attributed to Byron, although there are flashes of a parallel wit: . . . Whose parchment scourge and payment hour The poor affright, the rich molest! Bound in thy adamantine chain Millions are taught to taste of pain And freeborn Britons vainly groan With pangs unfelt before, unpitied and unknown! The poem seems first to have appeared in The Morning Chronicle of August 18, 1815, and it clearly struck a chord, as it was reprinted in the London Correspondent and Public Cause on August 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 Presidency and M.P. for Wootton Basset 1813-16, and therefore at least aware of and possibly even distantly acquainted with Byron. There is a slightly cropped ownership inscription “R. Richards” on the title page of the 1814 Corsair in Vol. II of the Works, so it is at least conceivable that Rickards inherited some 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 the church, and had a substantial book collection. Within three weeks of his death in 1874 appeared a Catalogue of a Library of Books, upwards of 2000 volumes, in excellent preservation, also a pair of 18 inch globes, magic lantern, transit instruments &c. of the late rev. R. F. B. Rickards, Vicar of Constantine to be sold by public auction by Mr. Corfield at the Polytechnic Hall, Falmouth on Tuesday 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 sometimes attributed to John Agg. These poems were later included in some editions of Byron’s Poems on His Domestic Circumstances, even though Byron wrote to his publisher John Murray on July 22, 1816 repudiating them and declaring the pamphlet to be “about the most impudent imposition that ever issued from Grub Street. I need hardly say that I know nothing of all this trash, nor whence it may spring. 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, and Lithographed Poem in her Handwriting. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 17 Princes Street, 1875. xx, [15]-128pp., 8vo, including the leaf with the lithographed facsimile of the author’s handwriting. Mounted albumen photograph of the author at the age of 72 by J. Valentine. Original blind-patterned red cloth, upper cover gilt-titled; small chip from the spine head, otherwise a fine copy. $90.00 First edition, with a fine autobiographical fragment which Gilfillan calls “simply graphic and unostentatiously beautiful.” Many of the poems are in Scottish dialect; one that is not is “My Tramp to See the Queen”: 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 as an 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 pop His 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 engraved frontispiece 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 over marbled 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 in North 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’s advertisements preceding the title. An excellent copy, untrimmed in the original gray paper boards, printed paper label; small splits at spine head. $90.00 First edition, by the youngest son of the former superintendent of Prince of Wales Island, today Penang Island, Malaysia. His brother was author of 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 own gloomy aspect, such as “On the Death of a Schoolfellow Accidentally Killed.”

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 the half-title to I Watched the Heavens, none called for elsewhere, and with a pencil note on the title of 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 for nearly all her poetic works, short for Vigolina, her husband’s dog-Latin translation of her maiden name Wigley. Her poetry was widely admired in her lifetime; the critic George Saintsbury thought it was “really good.” P.D. Edwards in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography more precisely describes her as writing “conventional late Romantic lyrics, gloomy and graceful.” In 1847 she met both Mary Russell Mitford and Elizabeth Barrett Browning but was not impressed with either. The feeling 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 three locations in North America (Princeton, UCLA, and Wisconsin), and The Valley of the Rea none in North America and only three overall, at Cambridge, National Library of Scotland, and Victoria and Albert. Berington’s Poetic Fragments is rarer still, with both OCLC and COPAC locating only the British Library copy.

35. COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR. The Ancient Mariner, and other Poems. London: Charles Tilt, 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 unusually nice 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 “a select 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 leaves carelessly 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. The occasional poems at the end show the author spent time in India; one of these is “In Memory of an Officer 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, himself a poet as well as an important patron of Robert Burns. The preface contains a fine discussion of Burns and how his fate affected the progress of poetry in Scotland. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 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 text signed “C.D.” A very nice copy in the original blind-stamped flexible green cloth, upper cover gilt-stamped “Mrs. Wiggens,” early paper spine label with manuscript title added and on the front pastedown 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 plumpness of renown,” who takes a pleasure cruise off Brighton Pier and comes to regret it. Four locations in OCLC, 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 Robert Burns”: 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’s Farewell” and “Cameron’s Address to his Clan.” Five copies in OCLC: British Library, National Library 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 hinge starting to split. $225.00 Apparently 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 our man, as ours declares in the preface to this book that he was born in 1870, “so that he has now only completed his seventeenth year.” The first three poems are on Khartoum and General Gordon, the last “On the Victory of Beach in the International Sculling Regatta.” I can find no mention of this poet in any of the usual catalogues or databases, or even a hint of his existence in various online search 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 the half-title. Contemporary calf; upper cover all but detached. $80.00 First edition, including translations from classical Latin poets, a long gothic poem on a subject taken from the seventeenth-century writer James Howell, and occasional pieces such as “On the death 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 of the 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 grubby but intact copy, a few leaves carelessly opened and a few other slight marginal tears. Untrimmed in the original calf-backed boards; worn with the paper covering largely off and the joints splitting. $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 of Mr Pitt.” Not in Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, who records other titles published by Morison; 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 two Parts. 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. Four engraved 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 label missing. $100.00 First edition, praise of the countryside near London, with something of the style of James Hurdis: The common grass here scents As pure as in the unfrequented vale. The gently rippling stream here runs as clear As other streams — the birds as sweetly sing As 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 half calf, spine fully gilt. $150.00 First edition, a generally cheerful series of poems on his “Native Village,” “Peace,” “The School Mistress,” 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 him from 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 work of an over-ruling Providence - the chain of events, by which I not only obtained a situation in life congenial to my wishes, but also became the possessor of that very place, 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 Modern Civilization. By An Uncivilized Irishman. Dublin: Printed at the City of Dublin Print. Establishment, 1866. 51, [1]pp., 12mo in sixes. 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 the National Library of Ireland; the title is not listed in OCLC or COPAC. These are topical and amusing poems, most with short explanations in prose by the author, beginning with “Pat Murphy and the Fairies,” (“in which the reader is introduced to some of the finest peasantry in the world”), and including “A New Dogma. By an Old Growler” (“This song was written on the Dog Tax, December 30, 1865”), and “The Foe-to-Graphic Art, or where Not to Get Your Likeness Taken,” on the perils of being photographed.

46. GARRATT, THOMAS. Original Poems. By Thomas Garratt, Jun. of Baddesley Ensor. London: Printed for the Author, By Barnard and Farley, Skinner-Street, 1818 xv, [i], 167, [1]pp., 12mo. With a list of subscribers, this copy interleaved with blanks throughout. A few minor stains at the beginning, but an agreeable copy (especially for readers inclined to annotate) in contemporary calf gilt; neatly rebacked with the 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 of half-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 British Library catalogue identifies a couple of contributions as by John F.M. Dovaston and William Gifford and states “only twenty-five copies printed.” Many of the poems are translations from various languages, e.g. “Epitaph for a Wife, by her Husband. 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 COPAC record 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, from the early age of twelve years.” Subjects include local scenes, various poems composed at sea, and one “Written Beneath a Portrait of Doctor Jenner, the Illustrious Discoverer of Vaccination”: “His best delight to soften human woe.” Not in Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839; six copies in OCLC, 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 “Index of 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 the military figures here satirized, even though the “Index of the Characters” at the end gave only fictitious 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 other successful poems, including The Pursuit of Fashion.

50. HACKETT, Mr. Poems, Elegiac and Miscellaneous. London: Printed for J. Carpenter, Old Bond Street, 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 offers effusive 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 Three Brethren,” 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 majestic oaks, called ‘The Three Brethren.’” OCLC records a single copy, at the National Library of Scotland.

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 for the 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 in the 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 of the distressed Irish, accompanied with the Author’s last Shilling.” Hardaker lived in Haworth at the same time as the Brontës and served as the town’s first apothecary. He also published another series of poems, The Bridal of Tomar; and other Poems, in 1831. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 408; five copies in OCLC, only Stanford outside England.

54. HEMANS, FELICIA DOROTHEA. The Sceptic; a Poem. By Mrs. Hemans. London: John Murray, Albemarle-Street, 1820. [iv], 38, [2], [8]pp., 8vo. With the half-title, and eight pages of advertisements for “following works in the press” dated December 1819; half-title with a short marginal 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 Sweet remarks in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the poem defends “domestic and religious 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 simply resting the truth of religion on the necessity of it, on the utter misery and helplessness of man without 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 two pages of “Proposals for Publishing . . . A Comprehensive and Systematic Display. . . 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 the first edition, published anonymously. Both this and the first edition appeared under the imprint of Byron’s publisher John Murray, and the poem was often attributed to Byron. Did Murray allow this reprint to remain anonymous in order to continue profiting from the mistake? It is tempting to think so, as Murray published other poems 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 Last Constantine: 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 of pebbled maroon morocco, gilt with a central lyre on covers and the spine title within a decorative scroll, g.e. $200.00 First edition, one of several larger collections of poetry published in the 1820s and 1830s that made Mrs. Hemans even more popular in the United States than in England. She was admired by George Eliot and Wordsworth, the latter describing her as “That holy spirit,/ Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep.” 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 the Affections, 1835. Edinburgh: William Blackwood. . . and T. Cadell, London, 1829-1835. Together four 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-styled sheep, 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 most popular 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 of the Author. July 13th 1849” and with the flyleaves and lower free endpaper filled with additional poems 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 a number of local poems, as well as one on seeing Lord Byron’s birth in the peerage, another on the emperor Hadrian’s farewell to his soul, and one to a friend in India. At the end of one of the manuscript poems is a note on the death of the author’s patron, who never saw the book, and the last of the manuscripts is dated Aug. 9th 1848. The book itself is rare, with OCLC and COPAC locating 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 “Isabella Peters 1807” on title-page, and with the corrigenda noted in pencil in the 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 composed while he lived in Lanchester as a village schoolmaster. The first poem, “Woodlands,” is set on the estate of Thomas White, in an enclosure that was once a wild and rocky heath overgrown with ferns and grasses. “Longovium, a Vision” is illustrated by woodcuts carved by Hodgson himself. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 443 60. [HOFLAND, BARBARA]. A Week at Harrogate; in a Series of Letters, Addressed from Benjamin Blunderhead, Esquire, to his Friend, Simon: Describing whatever principally attracted his attention, on his journey (through York,) to, and during his stay at that Celebrated Watering-Place. Knaresborough: Printed (for the Author) at Hargrove’s Office, 1818. 98pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and two plates, one of the latter engraved, the other woodcut, and a charming woodcut printer’s ornament at end. A wonderfully fine copy, untrimmed in the original printed and pictorial grey boards, upper cover including the imprint “Harrogate: Sold at Langdale’s Library.” $350.00 “Third Edition; with Three neat plates.” The first edition, titled “A Season at Harrogate” and with the letters supposedly addressed by Benjamin Blunderhead to his mother, was published in 1812 while the author was running a boarding school in Harrogate and struggling to support her artist husband. The author’s new poetical preface to the present edition notes its “Amendments not a few.” In fact it is almost a new poem, concentrating much more on the scenery and diversions of the town 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 of 1812 and 1813, not this one.

61. HOWARD, NATHANIEL. Bickleigh Vale, with other Poems. York: Printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence, 1804. viii, 139, [1]pp., sm. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and one plate, with the half-title but 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 deepest Devon; “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 a subscribers’ list which may be a ghost: the Stanford University copy, which seems to have been part of the Johnson collection, has the same pagination as the present copy, as does the copy digitized 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 for John Hunt], 1822-1823. 2 vols., 8vo. With four separate leaves of contents, the two in Vol. I repeating the same eleven lines of errata, and the first one with the “Advertisement to the Second Edition” dated January 1823 on verso; without the various advertisement leaves present in some copies. A large and handsome set in contemporary half calf, spines fully gilt. Engraved bookplate of Lord Carlingford in both volumes. $275.00 Second and best edition, not so stated on the titles but on the “Advertisement” noted above. This second edition adds Byron’s fine and witty preface, and the work as a whole contains major original printings by Byron (“The Vision of Judgment,” “Heaven and Earth,” and translation of the first 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 behind the project. “IN EASY VERSE” 63. JOHNSON, WILLIAM ROBERT. The History of England, in Easy Verse: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the Beginning of the Year 1806. Written for the purpose of being Committed to 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’s catalogue at end; one gathering partly sprung. Original red roan-backed boards; spine ends worn, but sound. $250.00 First 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 and UCLA) in OCLC, to which COPAC adds British Library and Bodleian. The publisher’s catalogue is 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. Edited prefaced and annotated by Richard Herne Shepherd with memorial notices of the author by Sumner Jones and William James 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’s advertisement for the 1843 edition of this book pasted to the verso of the front free endpaper. Original fine-grained blue cloth, paper spine label rubbed. Book-label “from the library of David Garnett” on front pastedown. $175.00 Second edition, first published in 1843 and met with such scathing criticism that the author never recovered, afterwards writing little more verse and dying of consumption in 1860. But he found a champion in Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who wrote of Jones as “nearly the most striking instance of neglected genius in our modern school of poetry. His poems are full of vivid disorderly power.” In due course the present edition, much enlarged, appeared. Apparently only a very few copies contained this original albumen photograph, and it makes sense that Richard Garnett would have had one, as an author, librarian at the British Museum, and the writer of the sympathetic entry for Jones in the original Dictionary of National Biography.

65. JOYCE, ROBERT DWYER. Blanid. By Robert D. Joyce, Author of “Deirdre.” Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879. 249, [1]pp., 8vo. Original green cloth gilt; front endpaper missing and the edge of the title leaf slightly chipped. $20.00 First edition, by an Irish poet said to have been an “oddly detached cousin” of James Joyce. After emigrating to Boston from Dublin in the late 1860s, Joyce published two works, Ballads of Irish Chivalry (1872) and Deirdre (1876), which latter sold ten thousand copies in its first week of publication. 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 all copies, 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 pages devoted to a prose essay “The Present State of English Literature,” in part derived from “the unpublished remarks of a literary man lately deceased.” These remarks are unusually good, and include “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 1840 copy is recorded, and one can only infer a stop-press update.

67. KEANE, JOHN HENRY. Ladye Alice, The Flower of Ossorye with Metrical Legends Chronicles Translations 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 this author. 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, Lord Templemore, 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 New South 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 red cloth with faded gilt spine and design in black on upper cover. $40.00 First edition, printed in multi-lingual types, and with poems on Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Felicia Hemans, “Advice to Bad Poets,” and some nursery rhymes.

MOURNING BINDING 69. KENNEDY, RANN. A Poem on the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe Coburg. By the Rev. R. Kennedy, A.M. Late of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and now Minister of St. Paul’s Chapel, in Birmingham. London: Printed for the Author, By A.J. Valpy, Tooke’s Court, 1817. 42, [2]pp., 8vo. With the half-title and terminal blank leaf; a few minor spots. Contemporary straight-grained black sheep, upper cover gilt-titled, a sombre binding probably for presentation and including glazed black endpapers; both covers now detached. $150.00 First 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, and sold by Archd. Constable & Co. Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, London, 1815. viii, 98, [2]pp., sm. 8vo. With an 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 spine label. $500.00 First edition, a significant poem by a woman about an emigree’s life in Canada at the time of the War of 1812, “composed at the moment of danger and enthusiasm [with] the fate of the province yet doubtful.” Ann Cuthbert Knight (1788-1860) first traveled to British North America in 1811, returning to Scotland in late 1812. The year this poem was published the family returned to Canada, settling in Montreal. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 181; seven copies in 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 few minor 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 to add that it is improbable that Mr. Lincoln ever caught sight of any of the poems in the present volume. Lincoln’s connection to Knox came from the poem “Mortality,” which begins “O why should the spirit of mortal be proud?” which the president quoted so often that some thought he wrote it himself. The present book contains many verses is similar vein; “Mortality” first appeared in Knox’s second book, published in 1824, when the poet was already on his way to what Sir Walter Scott described as “dissipation and ruin.” Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 518; four copies 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 and Longman, 1840. [ii], ix, [xii], “8,” [13], 18-358pp., 8vo. With the half-title, the preliminary pagination 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 Charles Nichols, Typographers.” Some of the pieces in this volume were later reprinted and in some cases apparently separately issued as Leatham went on to a successful political career. But this first edition is uncommon, with OCLC locating eight copies in Great Britain and two (NYPL and UCLA) in North America.

73. LEECH, MARGARET. Poems, on Various Subjects. By Miss Leech. London: Printed by Whittingham and Rowland, 1816. [viii], 195pp., 4to. Old waterstain affecting the outer corners of some 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 a privately 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 limited circulation 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 Full Description of the Principal Establishments, together with the most Renowned Patentees, Manufacturers, and Inventors in the Metropolis of the World. &c., &c. By James Torrington 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 his Town Residence, 1, Upper Ashby Street, Northampton Square, 1857”) in modern, but not recent, cloth, spine gilt- lettered, ticket of S. Rothschild-Davidson, Booksellers, on lower pastedown. $375.00 One of the earliest editions of this much reprinted and updated poem; presumably at least some of the establishments paid a subscription for their inclusion. Among the verses is a page for “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 of their trades and precise locations. The number of editions of this title would have to daunt the most intrepid bibliographer: they certainly extended into the 1870s and at least a stated “Hundredth.” The first one seems to have appeared in 1856, with this and the present “Complete” 1857 edition very uncommon, and the present 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 leaf of additional subscribers after p. 208; a little minor staining. Contemporary straight-grained black sheep gilt, g.e., probably an author’s presentation binding; rubbed but sound. Front flyleaf inscribed “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” is on the printed list) in a deluxe binding. Catherine Luby was, according to O’Donoghue (Poets of Ireland, p. 256) originally “a Tipperary woman, being a relative of T.C. Luby, the Fenian.” She later settled in Killarney. Stephen Behrendt in The Cambridge Companion to Women’s Writing in the Romantic Period, pp. 10-11, describes this work as an Irish gothic romance set among the medieval ruins of County Kerry [sic., for Killarney] that is as much a descriptive poem as a narrative one and that reveals the unmistakable influence of Ann Radcliffe’s immensely successful novels. He goes on to note the poem’s “subtle texturing. . . building slowly to the unhappy climax that situates 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, at Cornell, 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) here printed on large paper (9½ x 6½ inches), with a couple of trial drawings for the illustrated title-page inserted. 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, Frederic William Lucas (1842-1932) on front pastedown endpaper. $500.00 First edition of the author’s first book, printed on large paper, specially illustrated and sumptuously bound for presentation to her father. Winifred Lucas went on to some acclaim as a poet, and was included in Lady Margaret Sackville’s influential anthology A Book of Verse by Living Women (1910). The present poems are obviously influenced by Matthew Arnold, to whom two are written. OCLC records six copies of an ordinary paper issue, none of this one.

77. MACDONALD, WILLIAM [and SUSANNA HAWKINS]. Poems. Edinburgh: Printed by George Ramsay and Co., for the Author, 1809. viii, 157, [1], 14pp., 12mo. With a subscribers’ list at end. A very nice copy, bound with (for no reason I can determine) “Vol. V” of The Poems and Songs of Susanna Hawkins. Dumfries: Printed for the Authoress, 1841, 60pp. in contemporary half calf, 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 poems about his family. Seven copies in OCLC. Even scarcer is the volume of Susanna Hawkins’s Poems. 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 sold them door to door for fifty years, travelling as far as Manchester to do so.” The first of Hawkins’s volumes 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 in verse. By Ismael Fitzadam, formerly Able Seaman on board the -- Frigate. London: Printed for Whitmore 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 the notable 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 eleven engravings 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 mounted india-paper woodcut title vignette and ten illustrations by the author, eight of which still have their original tissue paper guards. Untrimmed in the original drab boards; backstrip almost entirely missing, but binding firm. Front pastedown endpaper inscribed “To the Editor of The New Monthly Magazine From the Author.” $100.00 First edition, presentation copy, with sixteen poems, ten of which are illustrated with Mason’s own woodcuts, covering a variety of subjects from war and peace to friendship and death. In 1808, at age fourteen, Mason, an orphan, was apprenticed to engraver Robert Branston, with whom he remained until 1820. In 1821, after five years working as Branston’s assistant, Mason struck out on his 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 Instructive Poems, adapted to very early youth. Respectfully inscribed to the Mothers of Families. Compiled by Dr. Mavor. Halifax: Printed & Published by William Milner, 1847. 160pp., 32mo (4½ x 3 inches). 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 editions following this one, which appears to be the first. OCLC locates copies at the Australian National University, 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 and all 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, such as “Parody on R. Burns’ Man Was Made to Mourn,” “Lines on the death of Robert Burns and Allen Ramsay,” and “The Foy; or, Scotch Invitation to a Parting Glass: written Extempore on leaving Manchester in 1802.” Other poems include “On Converting a Nail…into a Tobacco Stopper,” “On Lord Nelson’s Death,” and “Extempore on a Pipe.” Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839, 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 last two pages being publisher’s advertisements for other volumes of poetry. Some light spotting on first 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 he was a fellow at Wadham College, Oxford, and a translation of Pindar’s Odes (1874). Many of the poems 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, to Lollius. 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 corrected in ink on p. 8, this and the following leaf sharing the watermark “J. Whatman 1794”, with the final blank leaf; just a hint of a waterstain at the beginning. Original marbled wrappers. $300.00 First and only edition, by the son of the publisher John Newbery and inheritor of his bookselling and patent medicine business. Francis Newbery had a passion for the violin and for amateur theatricals which prevented him taking a university degree, and Dr. Johnson offended him by telling him that he had better give his fiddle to the first beggar-man he met. Five copies in OCLC: British Library, Manchester, Northwestern, Stanford, and Texas; ESTC adds Birmingham and Bodley.

84. NEWBERY, FRANCIS. Donum Amicis, Verses on Various Occasions. London: Printed for the Author 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, printed paper 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 theatricals written to be performed by the poet’s children. Among the longer poems is “The Terrors of the Rod. Occasioned by the Denial that this Instrument of Correction was used at Ladies Schools.” OCLC and COPAC 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 other Poems. By the Honble. Mrs. Norton. Dedicated to her Grace the Duchess of Sutherland. London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, 1841. xii, 334pp., 8vo. Engraved portrait by Lewes after Landseer. An attractive copy in green pebbled morocco 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 and the 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. By J. 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 and Moral. 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 final two pages being a note and publisher’s advertisement. Half-title inscribed, “From the Author to Lord Curzon” (inscription faded); the volume sometime affected by damp with some minor staining and rippling of the text block. Slightly later purple calf, gilt, with the Curzon arms on both sides; slightly rubbed and faded with a mild, but visible waterstain. $150.00 First edition, Lord Curzon’s copy (Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon, 1730-1820). Orme’s work includes poems such as “Ode on the Patriotic and Liberal Subscription, opened at Lloyd’s Coffee-house, for the Benefit of the Widows and Orphans of the Brave Defenders of their Country,” “Lord Nelson’s Victory,” and “Ode to My Dog, Tartar.” Orme’s work has five 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 “Irish Girl.” 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 some successful poems in periodicals Foremost among these, and included in this book, was “Burns’s Festival” which originally appeared in the Ayr Advertiser in 1844. Her preface declares she was born in Newry in 1824, and there are several poems on Ireland including “My own Green Isle.” A further edition of her works appeared in Glasgow in 1856, but this little book is rare, with OCLC and 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 green cloth, spine gilt; inner hinges cracking. $150.00 First edition, the subjects including “The Fate of Sir John Franklin,” “The Black Death,” “Magic Rings,” 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 a paper title-label; sewing partly defective, extremities worn and chipped 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 to gambling, 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. Old inkstamp and blindstamps of the now-dispersed Wigan Public Library. Untrimmed in later nineteenth-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 theatre managers, especially Edmund Kean who after three months’ silence pronounced it “totally unfit for representation.” 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-embossed calf 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 the latter’s poems. Peebles’s work here includes “The Complaint: On the Northern Emigrations Written in the Year 1774” and “Elegiac Verses on the Author’s Birth Day. He Bewails the Loss of a Parent. January, 1779.” Unlike Burns he lived to a ripe old age, dying in 1826, and was for years minister 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, opposite Albany, 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 the upper joint. Front pastedown inscribed “Charlotte Welch 1814” with a modern inscription opposite. $275.00 First edition of Pratt’s last work, in support of a parliamentary bill introduced by Lord Erskine to prevent cruelty to animals. As a contemporary notice in The Monthly Review put it, Pratt, “has so thoroughly 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 to Parliament, 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 the original 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 the first edition of 1821, which contained 63 pages. A preliminary leaf reads, in full, “Preface. I hate Prefaces, I never read them. Ergo, Ought I to write them?” The poems include “On Hearing a Friend Say, He Would Never Marry but for Money,” “Address to the Evening Star on Its Gradual Disappearance,” 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, did they not combine falsehood with illiberal criticism, they would pass unnoticed.” Neither this nor the 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 eyes and ears, woodcut vignette on title; the leaves largely unopened. Original blind-stamped green cloth, 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 extensive historical 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’s Scarronides, Whitehaven: J. Dunn, 1776, 144pp., in early nineteenth-century half calf, spine label missing. $175.00 First edition of an amusing series of poems, occasionally attributed to George Colman. The frontispiece illustrates the scene in “Tom Shuttle and Blousalinda” where the hapless husband peeking through the window sees There Blousalinda, full of joy, Confess’d by am’rous titters, Was sitting with the butcher’s boy Drinking of gin and bitters.

96. RITSON, JOSEPH, editor. The Caledonian Muse: A Chronological Selection of Scotish Poetry from 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 contemporary calf; expertly rebacked with the original label. $200.00 First edition, the original 1785 sheets with two leaves of 1821 preliminaries and an engraved silhouette portrait of Ritson. Shortly before the present work was supposed to be published in 1785, a fire destroyed part of the printer’s warehouse along with the manuscript of Ritson’s introductory essay.

NOT IN OCLC 97. ROBERTS, SAMUEL. The Sweet Psalmist of Israel: or, the Youth of 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 the narrative 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 and Epigrams. London: Richard Bentley & Son, New Burlington Street, Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty the Queen, 1876. [iv], 182, [6]pp., 8vo. With four pages of publisher’s advertisements at end. Largely unopened in the original cobalt blue cloth with black framing, spine gilt. $25.00 First edition of economic historian and politician Thorold Rogers’s foray into poetry, a book the Westminster 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 and Orme, 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. $350.00 First edition. Miss Rowden taught at a school belonging to the St. Quentins in Hans Place, London. Lady Caroline Lamb was one of her pupils, and the author herself attended an earlier incarnation of the same school in Reading, her time there probably overlapping with Jane Austen’s. This poem, intended for “the juvenile class,” sets forth the history of friendship from “its consolation to our first 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, and Yale.

DENISE LEVERTOV’S SHELLEY 100. SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Poems. London: William Benbow, 252, High-Holborn, 1826. [ii], 356pp., 18mo. With a number of pencil marks throughout highlighting particular uses of poetic language. An early inscription dated 1858 appears on the title, and “Denise Levertoff” in ink on the front free endpaper, with the offset of 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 the upper 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 collections adding from earlier publications, and a text sometimes offered at high prices. But this copy has more interest because of its provenance. The original “Levertoff” spelling of Denise Levertov’s last name suggests this was an early acquisition, but the ownership label offset has her Somerville address at the house she and her husband acquired in 1973. I would very much like to think that the pencil markings in the text of this copy are Levertov’s, and certainly they highlight unusual phrasings 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 major awards 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. Engraved portrait and an additional engraved title incorporating a vignette of a woman reading under a riverside tree and a dedication to the Marquess Wellesley; some light spotting, but an unusually nice 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 the poems 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, OCLC records 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 most remarkable Epochs in its History, Ancient and Modern, Civil, Naval and Military - Its Public Edifices - The Garrison, Dock-Yard, &c. - The Towns of Portsea and Gosport, and the surrounding Country - with every object worthy of observation, for its History, Antiquity, or beauty of situation. Interspersed with many Original Anecdotes, Tales, Biographical Notes, and Characteristic Illustrations. By Henry Slight, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, and Surgeon to the Ladies’ Benevolent Society, &c. Portsmouth: Printed by Hollingsworth & 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” which opens in the year 501 A.D., and continuing to explore the history, landmarks, and countryside surrounding 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 of Legendary, 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 an untrimmed 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 notes his willingness to capitalize on “the present perversion of taste, and the romance mania so prevalent 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 text is a reissue with an altered imprint. The present text differs from the 1810 edition by dropping a 16-page poem called “Sibert and Eleanor” and adding four new ones, including “Spectre of Weigh Hill,” “Mary the Maid of the Moor,” and “Elegy on Johanna Southcott.”

104. STENNETT, CHARLES B. Fugitive Pieces. By the Rev. C. B. Stennett. Cheltenham: Printed for 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 and published 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 written in remarkably free verse. Stennett served as a lieutenant in the North York Regiment., and afterwards took Catholic orders and taught at St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth. The poems here include “The Victim of Seduction” With seeming truth, the wretch, he pays his vows - affection on his lips, though lurking poison fills 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 with pamphleteer Sir Harcourt Lees, an opponent of Roman Catholicism in Ireland. As to the second work, I can trace no biographical details of the poet Michael Gaffey, although his subject, Rev. Rowland Broomhead (1751-1820), is generally considered one of the key figures in the Catholic revival in England. Neither work is in Johnson, Provincial Poetry 1789-1839; of the Stennett OCLC and COPAC record the British Library copy, and of Gaffey’s poem a copy at Durham University.

105. STEVENSON, MISS. Homely Musings, By a Rustic Maiden. Kilmarnock: Printed for the Author, 1870. 115, [1]pp., 8vo. Essentially as new in the original embossed rust cloth, upper cover gilt-titled. $125.00 First edition. Poems include “Is a Woman’s Worth to be known by the number of Sweethearts she has?” and “Jeanie Fleming, or the 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 Miss Stricklands Compliments to her Respected Friend Jane Porter.” Original drab boards; chipped and worn, the paper spine label rubbed but still legible. $200.00 First edition, an engaging association, as an old catalogue slip loosely 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 with extended crossings of “t”s etc., and it seems a little odd for it to be in pencil, but the hand is very like 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 the Education of the Poor; an Indian Tale; and the Offering of Isaac, a Sacred Drama. London: Printed by 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 ownership inscription of Job Lousley dated 1843 with his manuscript annotations concerning Talfourd’s authorship: “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 Charles Lamb 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 a British farmer and antiquarian with a particular interest in language; he was a major contributor to A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Berkshire, London, 1852.

PRIVATELY PRINTED 108. THURLOW, EDWARD HOVEL, Lord. Select Poems of Edward Hovel Thurlow, Lord Thurlow. Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham, 1821. [iv], 92pp., 8vo. With the half-title, front free endpaper inscribed “Mrs. Hulse. The gift of Eliza Thurlow. March 10th, 1823.” Original rose 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 and that in the Pforzheimer collection, clearly never had it. Among the poems here are “On the Poem of Mr. Rogers, entitled ‘An Epistle to a Friend,’” which Byron once tried to read out loud but, as Thomas Moore reported, “was unable to get beyond the first two words,” without causing all present to dissolve into fits of laughter. Later Byron sent Moore a parody, parts of which the latter considered unprintable. Moore also had unkind things to say about Thurlow in the Edinburgh Review, but Charles Lamb admired one of Thurlow’s poems enough to copy it into Coleridge’s notebook, 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 a vignette of a buck beside a stream; some adhesion damage at pp. 354-355 with the loss of a dozen or so letters across three lines on p. 354. Prettily bound in contemporary polished calf gilt, spine elaborately 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 Hare Townsend, or Townshend (1798-1868) was educated Trinity College, Cambridge, where he won the Chancellor’s medal for his poem, “Jerusalem,” the first in this volume, at commencement in 1817. 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 friends with 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 Weekly Times, 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 “Ancient Superstitions” including tales of pixies. OCLC locates thirteen copies, five of them in North America.

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 the kind 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 became the 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 the original 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 throughout his 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, and Ariosto. 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 in the original blue boards; rebacked with a modern printed paper label. Front free endpaper inscribed “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: Printed by N. Biggs. . . for Vernor and Hood, Poultry. And sold by E.B. Robinson, J. Dunn, and the other Booksellers 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 edge gilt, 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 the dedication to the Duchess of Devonshire, White describes his efforts as the “trifling effusions of a very youthful muse,” this deferential statement being echoed by the Monthly Review of February 1804, which taunted the young poet with the suggestion that should he ever gain the benefits of study “he will, doubtless, produce better sense and better rhymes.” Kirke White managed to get to Cambridge 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 largely neglected. 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 mottled calf gilt; spine a bit rubbed, and with an old ink historical library stamp on the first page of preface, no other markings. $125.00 First edition, privately printed for presentation, published the year after the author’s death at the age of seventeen. The poems are individually dated, and address Bonaparte, the People of Yorkshire, the seasons, memory, a drooping violet, and various young ladies. Johnson, Provincial Poetry 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 of contents at end. A fine copy in contemporary half black roan, spine gilt-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 of Time.” 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 of William Wordsworth, Esq. Chiefly for the use of Schools and Young Persons. 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 selection has 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 by B. Benson, 1842. 12pp., 12mo. Disbound. $275.00 Presumably the first edition, apparently unrecorded, although another edition of the same title was printed at Cowes, Isle of Wight, in 1844, located only at the British Library which identifies the author. 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 the subjugation 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.”