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Book ID: 29113 Prose and Poetry, on Religious, Moral, and Entertaining Subjects,...

CAVE, JANE (LATER JANE CAVE WINSCOM).

Prose and Poetry, on Religious, Moral, and Entertaining Subjects, with a Brief, but Authentic, & Affecting History of Orenzo and Sarah, from the Year 1793 to the Present Day. By Mrs. Rueful [pseud].

Bristol: Printed by George Routh, for the Author, n.d. [circa 1800]. First edition. ESTC T222838, which records two copies: BL and South Hampton; JISC adds four: National Library of Scotland, St. Andrews, and Wellcome; OCLC adds one, NYPL (Phforzheimer, apparently the only copy in America); and see Jackson, Romantic Poetry.....

Price: $2,250.00

[ENGLISH POETRY]. Dyce, Alexander, Compiler.

Specimens of British Poetesses; Selected and Chronologically Arranged.

London: T. Rodd, 1827. First edition, second issue; the first issue was dated 1825; this second issue has a cancel title with a slightly revised imprint dated 1827. NCBEL III, 1644; Lowndes, page 705. An early work by Rev. Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), the prolific compiler, editor and scholar. See the.....

Price: $500.00

FREEMAN, MARY E. WILKINS.

Decorative Plaques. Designs by George F. Barnes. Poems by Mary E. Wilkins.

Boston: D. Lothrop, (1883). First edition. BAL 6302, binding A. The rare first book by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930), a collection of 12 poems for the illustrations of George F. Barnes. Freeman later became well known and celebrated for her popular local color stories about New England places and.....

Price: $1,250.00

[HALE, SARAH JOSEPHA].

[Mary's Lamb in] Children's Prayer / The Sabbath / Mary's Lamb / Religion - What is it? / Lord's Prayer [caption titles].

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.....

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SANDERS, CHARLOTTE ELIZABETH.

Poems on Various Subjects.

London: Printed at the Logographic Press, and sold by Messrs. Wilkie, [1787]. First edition. ESTC N25028 records two copies (Yale and HEH); COPAC adds BL; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 286. The first book by Charlotte Sanders, who went on to write children's fiction, notably The Little Family, published.....

Price: $3,750.00

WEST, JANE.

Miscellaneous Poems, and A Tragedy.

York: Printed by W. Blanchard and sold by R. Faulder, London, [etc.], 1791. First edition. ESTC T68679; Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 365; NCBEL III, 772. The scarce third book by poet and novelist Jane West (1758-1852) - and her first substantial book - which brings together 22 poems.....

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WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA.

Recueil de Poésies, Extraites des Ouvrages d'Helena-Maria Williams, Traduites de l'Anglais par M. Stanislas de Boufflers . . . et par M. Esménard.

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.....

Price: $1,600.00

WOOLSON, CONSTANCE FENIMORE.

Plum's Picture [caption title].

N.p., n.d. [but probably Cleveland, Ohio, 1871]. First edition. Not found in BAL or OCLC; no copy found in trade or at auction. A rare early work by Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894) - very likely her first separate appearance in print - a poem in three 12-line stanzas written to.....

Price: $750.00

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