Author: [ADDISON (Richard):
Title: Carmina Excerpta; or Gleanings from the writing of Richard of Raindale, the Moorish Bard.
Description: Hull: Printed by J. Hutchinson, 30 Scale-Lane. 1833. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo (in 6s), pp. viii, 140 [141 - 148 subscribers], engraved frontispiece, contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed and slightly soiled; base of spine defective, upper front joint cracked. The rhetorical formula of the Preface sounds familiar: "The following pieces are a part of what were written or conceived on the impulse of the moment, without any the most distant idea of publication.... The work might possibly have derived great advantage from a carerful revisal, and still more from the hand of a literty friend, but the Author prefers submitting it in its rude uncultivated state to the impartial critique of the public, convinced that there will not be found one couplet offensive to delicacy or morality." Well, that's reassuring. Jackson pl 572; Johnson, Provincial Poetry, 165. OCLC locates copies in BL, Hull, Leeds, Bodleian, York Minster; Stanford and UC, Davis in the USA. Uncommon

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