The Lover s Manual being a Choice Collection of Poems from the most approv d Modern Authors. With several Original Pieces. In Five Books. Containing I. Love Epistles in Verse. II. Love Epistles in Prose. III. Epistolary Panegyrics. IV. Acrostics. V. Select Pieces of Poetry.

[WILKINSON, EDWARD, probable part author and compiler].

Published by London: Printed for S. Silver, Bookseller in Sandwich; and sold by Charles Hitch, and Lacy Hawes, Booksellers in Pater-Noster-Row, 1753.

About this Item

[xxxii], 312pp., 12mo. With a sixteen-page subscribers list, almost entirely Kentish, but without the two terminal leaves of publisher s advertisements; title-leaf slightly ragged around the edges, some browning. Attractively bound in twentieth-century half olive morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g.; spine a little faded. First and only edition, with the "original" contributions indicated by asterisks, the vast majority of which are given to "E.W.", i.e. Edward Wilkinson. The book is intended as a "Means of exalting and refining the Notions and Conceptions of the younger Part of the World," and to help the kind of love "regulated solely by its brutish Desires." The original compositions are mostly in the poetical sections, and include several panegyrics on young ladies of various towns in Kent. Another poem, by the compiler s friend "W.P." is titled "On a remarkable Company and Journey of Pleasure to the Sea Houses at Bourn in Sussex, July 1st, 1749." It was a young group: All yet unbound with matrimonial ties, Tho some appear d soft Hymen s votaries; The youngest had full twenty years survey d, But not till thirty had the eldest stay d, On pleasing themes our chat went briskly round; With various liquors was our table crown d. . . . Seller Inventory # 13581

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Lover s Manual being a Choice Collection...

Publisher: London: Printed for S. Silver, Bookseller in Sandwich; and sold by Charles Hitch, and Lacy Hawes, Booksellers in Pater-Noster-Row, 1753.

Binding: Hardcover