About this Item
[4], 22, [2], 163,[ 1]p, woodcut head & tail pieces. Foolscap 8vo. Contemporary mottled calf; neatly rebacked, inner hinges reinforced. Contemporary name of Charlotte Sanderson [Bromley, Kent] written down outer margin of pp 28 & 84, and on endpaper, another early name on inner board. Charlotte Sanderson (died Bromley, 1847), may be the widow of the Rev. Alfred Sanderson, Vicar of Aston Blanc, Gloucestershire, who died in 1811. ESTC T110003, BL, Cambridge, Oxford; Newberry, California. Pp55-56 & 147 misnumbered 56-55 and 148 respectively, with 'new edition' printed at head of titlepage. 'The most eminent of the Lake District poets was Josiah Relph, 1712-43, a native of Sebergham in Cumberland, and, after education at Glasgow University, perpetual curate there until his death. His Miscellany of Poems was published posthumously in 1747, the subscribers including the notable antiquary Thomas Pennant. Subsequently Wordsworth is known to have possessed a copy of his work. Relph's fame seems to have been of slow growth, but in 1798 a second volume of Poems by the Rev Josiah Relph was published in Carlisle, with the notable embellishment of engravings by Thomas Bewick.' ref: A. Menuge, The Eccentric Domain, 1991. The decorative embellishments in this 1797 edition are not by Bewick to whom they were often attributed, and whose engravings only first appeared in the 1798 edition. Seller Inventory # 95534
Contact seller
Report this item
Bibliographic Details
Title: Poems by the Reverend Josiah Relph, of ...
Publisher: Carlisle, printed by William Thompson; and sold by R. Faulder, J. Robson, W. Clarke, and J. Bell, London. 1797
Publication Date: 1797
