The Young Gentleman and Lady's Poetical Preceptor:

[Woolston (Thomas, editor)]

The Young Gentleman and Lady's Poetical Preceptor:

Being a Collection of the most Admired Poetry: Selected from the Best Authors...

Description: a couple of manuscript corrections on final pages, final advertisement leaf featuring books sold by M. Luckman, front free-endpaper inscribed 'The Gift of the Author, April 24th, 1795 pp. xii, 310, [ii,ad], 12mo, contemporary tree calf boards with gilt roll-tooled border, rebacked, spine with morocco label lettered in gilt, rear board surface damaged at lower corner, board corners worn, good

Publication Details: Coventry: M. Luckman, Sold also by Brooke and Macklin… and by the editor, Adderbury, Oxfordshire, [c.1795]

Notes: The stated aim of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Woolston's scarce compilation was 'to be entertaining and instructive to Youth in general', and with this in mind, to include shorter poems and avoid the extracts common to many anthologies of the time. While works by Milton, Dryden and Pope do feature, the 'transitional poets' - Cowper, Gray, Burns, William Collins - are well represented, along with popular elegies from lesser known writers, such as Richard Jago's lament on the death of a self-sacrificing blackbird, 'The Blackbirds.' Several poems from the pioneering early Romantic, Charlotte Smith, the h...moreThe stated aim of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Woolston's scarce compilation was 'to be entertaining and instructive to Youth in general', and with this in mind, to include shorter poems and avoid the extracts common to many anthologies of the time. While works by Milton, Dryden and Pope do feature, the 'transitional poets' - Cowper, Gray, Burns, William Collins - are well represented, along with popular elegies from lesser known writers, such as Richard Jago's lament on the death of a self-sacrificing blackbird, 'The Blackbirds.' Several poems from the pioneering early Romantic, Charlotte Smith, the highly regarded Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Carter, of the Bluestocking Circle, are also included. The verse text is followed by miniature biographies of each poet, Burns, for example, 'though a provincial writer in the Scotch dialect, is in many of his pieces very pleasing', while Charlotte Smith's poems are described as 'some of the most exquisite sonnets perhaps ever written.'Mary Luckman continued the successful printing business of her husband, Thomas (Mayor of Coventry in 1782), employing 4 apprentices in the 1790s, one of whom, William Sheffield, becoming her business partner and son-in law.Only 3 copies listed in ESTC (British Library, Bodleian, Canterbury University; none listed in the US) HIDE

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Price: £950

Subject: Literature

Published Date: [c.1795]

Stock Number: 70303

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