Author: LEATHAM, William Henry.
Title: Poems. [Comprising:] A traveller's thoughts; The victim; Sandal in the olden time; Henry Clifforde and Margaret Percy; Siege of Grenada; Emilia Monteiro; Strafford. A tragedy; Oliver Cromwell. A drama.
Description: London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans; Wakefield: Illingworth and Hicks, 1843. 16cm. Various pagings. Contemporary half calf gilt, raised bands, decorated compartments, maroon calf gilt spine label, marbled sides, eps and leaf-edges, integral silk place-marker. Extremes very lightly rubbed; light spotting and browning to blanks. Eight separate pieces, each with its own title-page, imprint and register. Reissued in 1843 with a general title-page. Leatham was well known in Yorkshire, particularly Wakefield, as a poet, politician and banker. Brought up as a Quaker, he later became a member of the Church of England. COPAC: V & A, Leeds.

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