Author: PLUMPTRE (James):
Title: A Collection of Songs, Moral, Sentimental, Instructive, and Amusing. Selected and Revised by The Rev. James Plumptre.
Description: London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington..., 1806. 12mo, 190 x 108 mms., pp. xxvii [xxviii Errata], 400, uncut, recently recased in gray boards, paper label on spine. Plumptre (1771 - 1832) includes a number of his own compositions in this anthology, but somewhat extraordinarily includes a poem by Charlotte Richardson [née Smith; 1775 - 1825] that had just been published in the same year. The volume was a success, and he extended it to three volumes in 1808.

Keywords: song poetry


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