[Rarebooks] fa: POEMS by LADY [Catharine] MANNERS 1794 - Fine/Unopened in Boards

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Listed now, auction ending Sunday, April 15. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


[Catharine Rebecca Grey,] Lady Manners: Poems. London: Printed for John Booth, Duke Street, Portland Place; G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row; and B. and J. White, Fleet Street, 1794. First 8vo edition (19.5 cm); untrimmed and unopened in the (presumably) original blue paper-covered boards, parchment spine; [6], 152 pp.; with the half-title page. ESTC T96366.

The first 8vo edition, containing a poem not found in the first 4to edition (”Written by Mrs. Cowley, on Reading the Verses of Lady Manners to Solitude”). A very fine copy: contents exceedingly clean, fresh and bright, virtually as new; unopened (i.e., many of the leaves still joined at the edges as issued), hence unread; small horizontal nick to the spine paper.

Catharine Grey, Lady Manners (1766?-1852), was born in Cork, Ireland, and raised as part of the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy. A number of the poems here have Irish themes.