 | - Book Title: Poems of William Cowper of the inner Temple, Esq. a new edition, volume 1
- Author: William Cowper
- ISBN: MWB7772525251
- Publisher: J Johnson
- Year Published: 1799
- Our Normal Price: £49.50 GBP ($0.00 USD)
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- Description: Printed for J Johnson, St Paul's Church-Yard, London 1799: volume 1 of a new edition in two volumes: brown mottled leather with six banded spine, decorated and with title in gilt: approximately 3.25 x 5" tall: mottled endpapers and edges: 294 pages. Contents: 10 page preface to the first volume dated February 18, 1782. Poems by William Cowper entitled as follows: - Table Talk. Progress of Error. Truth. Expostulation. Hope. Charity. Conversation. Retirement. The Doves. A Fable. A Comparison. Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk, during His Solitary Abode in the Island of Juan Fernandes. On the Promotion of Edward Thurlow, Esq. to the Lord High Chancellorship of England. Road to Peace. Human Frailty. The Modern Patriot. On observing some Names of little Note recorded in the Biographia Britannica. Report of an adjudged Cafe, not to Be found in any of the Books. On the Burning of Lord Mansfield's Library, together with His MSS, by the Mob, in June 1780. On the Fame. The Love of the World reproved; or, Hypocrisy detected. The Lily and the Rofe. Idem Latine Redditum. The Nightingale and Glow-worm. Votum. On a Goldfinch starved to Death in a Cage. The Pine Apple and the Bee. Horace, Book the 2 nd, Ode the 10th. A Reflection on the foregoing Ode. Translations from Vincent Bourne. The Shrubbery. The Winter Nosegay. Mutual Forbearance. To the Reverent Mr Newton. Translation of Prior's Chloe and Euphelia. Boadicea. Heroism. The Poet, the Oyster, and the Sensitive Plant. To the Reverent Mr William Cawthorne Unwin. Condition: spine and cover edges rubbed: corners bumped: end papers mildly discoloured: upper corners of back endpapers creased: inscriptions 'from Principal Baird' to front end paper, and ' from Dr Baird' facing title page ( thought to be George Husband Baird. 1761-1840, Principal of the Universi of Edinburgh ). overall clean, firm and good.
- Condition: See Above
- Dustcover: No
- Binding: Hardback
- Type: Used Books
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