London: John Murray, 1817. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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...
London: Printed for T. Caslon and Sold by J. Smith, and M. Jackson, 1759. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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...
London: Printed for Thomas Bennet, 1694. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Wing K-461; ESTC R8939; NCBEL II, 767. ¶ Poetic and prose meditations written towards the end of the life of Sir William Killigrew (bap. 1606-1695), playwright and courtier, whose career flourished almost the entire span of the 17th century...
London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787]. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Sanders 1; ESTC records two copies (Yale and Huntington), to which OCLC and COPAC add BL. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's...
Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham, 1753-56. Edition: Third edition; second edition; second edition; first edition; first edition (respectively). Bibliographical References: Cf. Rothschild 1865; NCBEL II, 590. ¶ The famous Seatonian Prize Poems, an annual award that commenced in 1750 with the bequest of clergyman Thomas Seaton (1684-1741), who dictated that...
York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: 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...
