Poems intended to promote piety and virtue in the minds of young people. Selected by Rachel Barclay. The second edition
London: James Phillips and Son, 1797. 8vo, pp. [3], iv-xii, 170, [2] errata; contemporary full calf; marbled endpapers; spine quite rubbed and gilt worn away; diamond-pattern staining on covers; front board starting, rear joint cracked; headcaps missing; lightly foxed; otherwise good and sound. Bookplate of Samuel Elam of Rhode Island, signature on title page. Elam (1750-1813) was the President of the Newport Insurance Company, which was founded in 1799 and later absorbed into Rhode Island Union Bank in 1804. Rachel Barclay was a British woman who passed away in 1792. After her death her family assembled a collection of writings, "which she had selected, from an opinion that they might tend to the improvement and innocent pleasure of the rising generation." This is the first edition with the biographical introduction. Item #57675
Price: $100.00
