[Rarebooks] fa: ELIZABETH ROWE - MISCELLANEOUS WORKS IN PROSE AND VERSE - 2 vols. 1756

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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The Miscellaneous Works, in Prose and Verse, of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe: Published by her Order, By Mr. Theophilus Rowe. To which are added, Poems on several Occasions, by Mr. Thomas Rowe. And to the Whole is prefixed, An Account of the Lives and Writings of the Authors… The Fourth Edition, Corrected. To which is added, The History of Joseph, a Poem in Ten Books. London: Printed for Henry Lintot, MDCCLVI [1756]. Two volumes; tall 12mo (18 cm) in period calf, morocco spine labels; [6], xcvi, 276 p.; [4], 410 p.; woodcut decorations. ESTC T92682.

From the library at Encombe House, Dorset, the seat of John Scott (1751-1838), 1st Earl of Eldon and Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, with his signature ("Eldon") and armorial bookplates; front endpapers with the signatures of his wife, Eliza[beth] Scott. Bindings are worn and scuffed with some loss to the leather in several places, spines dried and chipped at the ends, joints cracked but secure; early ink initials to title of vol. I, mild dust-soiling to the edges of the text block, light toning to the leaves, a couple of leaves creased, a few small spots of soiling; otherwise clean and sound.

A relatively early printing of the collected works of Mrs. Rowe (1674–1737), poet, novelist, and (to some) proto-feminist. The Poems and Translations of her husband, Thomas Rowe, have a separate title page dated 1755, though the pagination is continuous.