Poems . Second edition

Crabbe, George

Published by printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, opposite Albany, Piccadilly, London, 1808

About this Item

8vo, pp. xxvii, [1], 258, 16 (Longman Hurst Rees ads dated June 1, 1808), [2] Hatchard ads; original gray paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; label slightly rubbed, spine a little sunned, p. 135 with clean tear in the foremargin (no loss); all else generally very good and sound. Early ownership signature of [Mrs. Elizabeth] "El. Rose / Kilravock / 1808." Starting on recto of front endpaper, light pencil annotations and line-numbering intermittently throughout the volume. Elizabeth Rose (1747-1815) was an eighteenth-century Scottish literary critic and author. "She was an avid reader and possibly the best-documented eighteenth-century Scottish woman reader. In the years 1775 1780 alone she read 217 books. Reading was intended to influence her own moral improvement and to prepare her for the world into which she had suddenly been thrust due to the premature deaths of her father, her brothers and her husband . Rose developed a literary reputation mainly because of her indiscriminate and voracious reading . This marked her out in a country where there was little learning in either sex.' She shared her reading with others as she actively sought to cultivate a specific philosophy of reading in the next generation of female readers" (Wikipedia). See, Brown, Stephen M., The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Edinburgh University Press, 2012. p. 438. Seller Inventory # 66613

Bibliographic Details

Title: Poems . Second edition

Publisher: printed for J. Hatchard, Bookseller to Her Majesty, opposite Albany, Piccadilly, London

Publication Date: 1808

Binding: Hardcover