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SMITH (Charlotte): - Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems. The Eighth Edition.

London: Printed for T. Cadell..., 1797. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, 158 x 95 mms., pp. [vii], iv - xii [xiii - xvi Contents], 106 [107 - 108 adverts];, including half-title; [xvi -list of subscribers],xv [xvi blank, xvii - xx Contents], 117 [118 blank, 119 adverts, 120 blank], with 5 engraved plates in volume 1, engraved portrait of Smith and 4 engraved plates in volume 2, contemporary calf, gilt spines; fragment of one label on volume 2, front joint volume 1 cracked (but firm), slight other wear to bindings. Charlotte Smith (née Turner, 1749 - 1806) is better-known for her Elegiac Sonnets than for any of her other writings. Wordsworth said of her that she was, "a lady to whom English verse is under greater obligations than are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered...."
GBP 660.00 [Appr.: EURO 762.25 US$ 887.8 | JP¥ 130867] Book number 9829

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