Author: LLOYD (David):
Title: The Voyage of Life: A Poem in Nine Books. By the Reverend D. Lloyd, Vicar of Llanbister.
Description: London: Printed for C. Dilly..., 1792 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 173 x 100 mms., pp. [ii] [3] 4 - 221 [222 blank, 223 errata, 224 blank], engraved emblematic frontispiece, contemporary sheepskin, gilt rrules, morocco; joints crudely repaired with tape; contemporary ms. annotation on lower margin of page 2220: "The allusion taken from the home of a most fatal Vortex on the coast of Norway." As a boy, David Lloyd (1752 - 1838) "had to work on his father's farm a lot of the time, he received a sporadic education in Latin and mathematics from local schools, as well as teaching himself Greek and developing an appreciation of 'Druidical' and Welsh poetry. In 1771 at the age of nineteen he opened a small school in Llanbister. While teaching he prepared himself for holy orders and was ordained priest in 1778.... In 1792 Lloyd published The Voyage of Life, a religious poem in nine volumes. A new and enlarged second edition was published in 1812; renamed Characteristics of Men, Manners and Sentiments, or, The Voyage of Life, it contained an additional (tenth) volume to the original as well as some miscellaneous poems" (ODNB). ESTC T136836 locates copies in BL, Bodleian, NLS; Harvard (2), Virginia, New York University, Yale; Alberta

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