Author: FLETCHER (James):
Title: Chozar and Sela; or The Siege of Damascus; and Other Poems.
Description: London:: Printed for William Mason..., 1829. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 175 x 105 mms., pp. v [vi blank], 227 [118 blank, 119 - 120 adverts], original boards; spine defective. With the book plate of Percival J. Hinton and the book label of J. O. Edwards on the front paste-down end-paper. In his preface, Fletcher, who gives his address as Clare Hall, Cambridge, records that "The basis of truth on whidh superstructure of fiction in the larger poem [Chozar and Sela] is founded, may be seen i Gibbon, and Ockley's History of the Saracens...." It would appear that Fletcher wrote these poems while, or even before, he was a student at Clare Hall, as he concludes the preface: "The good opinion of those who may be inclined to think favourably of the present production, might be heightened, perhaps, if the work were premature: this, however is a plea the author cannot make; but if any of my readers will think the better of it for having been written before my eighteenth year, I will leave my cause in their charitable hands."

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