Price: £500
Subject: Theology
Published Date: [1785]
Stock Number: 49863
(Your basket is currently empty)in Meditation and Soliloquoy, Prayer and Praise; turned into blank verse, by the Rev. Edward Smyth.
Description: engraved frontispiece, lightly offset to title, one leaf with a closed tear through 5 lines of text (no loss), pp. iv, 174, [2], 18mo, contemporary flame calf, rebacked, slightly worn at edges and darkened around the repair, armorial bookplate of the historical writer Kenelm Henry Digby (c.1800-1880), goodPublication Details: Printed by Fry & Couchman, [1785]
Notes: Rowe's exercises were first published in 1738, and frequently reprinted thereafter (including a second and third edition in the same year as the first). The date of this rare re-writing (apparently the only edition) is from ESTC, which gives holdings in the BL, St Andrews, and Union Theological Seminary only. Smyth's own dates are given there as 'fl. 1776-1818', but he seems to be identifiable with the Methodist preacher (1749-1825), a nephew of the Archbishop of Dublin, formerly curate of Ballyculter in Co. Down (but expelled for his Methodism). Smyth knew John Wesley, who referred to him in ...more
Bibliography: (ESTC T80615)
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