London: John Murray, 1817. First edition. NCBEL III, 383; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 152. A scarce and early work by Felicia Dorothea Hemans (1793-1835), an interesting long poem on Greek independence, à la Byron's Childe Harold. In her poem Hemans defends the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles, but...
London: Printed for T. Caslon and Sold by J. Smith, and M. Jackson, 1759. First edition. ESTC T10583, which records four copies in the UK (BL, Cambridge, Rylands, Trinity) and five in the US (Boston Public, Duke, Newberry, two at Yale). A celebratory poem in four cantos on the four...
London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1820. First edition. MacGillivray 3; Hayward 233; NCBEL III, 346. The third and last book by John Keats and generally regarded as one of the finest books of poetry in the English language. In addition to the title poems, it includes "Ode to a....
York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791. First edition. NCBEL III, 772; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; ESTC T68679. The scarce third book by poet and novelist Jane West (1758-1852) - and her first substantial book - which brings together 22 poems...