Hartford: Seldon & Goodwin, Printers, 1815. First edition. BAL 17615; American Bibliography 35937; Stoddard & Whitesell 1111. The uncommon first book by Lydia Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865), a substantial collection of poems and short essays which foreshadowed her career as one of the most popular and prolific American literary women of.....
Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale”; “Sonnet sur l’oiseau du.....
Fair copy manuscript, no place, circa 1806. There are six fair copy manuscripts of Psyche held in institutions that have been found: National Library of Wales, Morgan Library, Beinecke Library, two at the British Library (one incomplete), Wilson Library at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and one is listed in OCLC.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown, 1811. First trade edition, with substantial additions. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Tighe, 1(b); NCBEL III, 405. The first trade edition of the work of Irish poet Mary Tighe (1772-1810), whose popular poem Psyche, or the Legend of Love, was privately.....
London: Printed for J. Williams, 1768. First edition. ESTC T79464; NCBEL II, 1585; and see Lonsdale, Eighteenth-Century Women Poets, page 56. A slim collection of 21 poems by Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), published six years after her death. Though famously well-traveled, active in social causes (she was instrumental in the.....
London: Printed for J. Booth, 1799. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 213, 2; ESTC T106175. The second of two works by Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766-1852), a clever poem addressed to "a" son (she had several) on the history and beauty of poetry, from the ancients to.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. First edition. BAL 17758; American Imprints 41-4751. A substantial collection of verse by Lydia Sigourney (1791-1865), beginning with a long poem on the legend of Pocahontas, followed by almost 100 other shorter poems.
London: Printed by John Bell, British Library, 1793. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 212, 1 (a); ESTC T96857. The first book by Irish-Anglo writer and aristocrat Lady Catherine Rebecca Manners (1766-1852), a collection of 25 poems, mostly Irish in theme, that went through at least two more.....
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London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1789; London: Printed for John Bell, 1788; London: Printed for T. Cadell, Junior, and W. Davies, 1797. Fifth edition of the first volume of Elegiac Sonnets; first edition of volume two of Elegiac Sonnets; the first edition of The Poetry of Anna Matilda. NCBEL II.....
Boston: Henry Bowen's Chemical Print, 19 Water Street, [circa 1832]. One of several known variants, priority undetermined. Collins, Threads of History, 229, describing a similar version, but not this one. A linen handkerchief for children with religious poems, prayers and one of the most famous of all 19th century nursery.....