Original poems, and a play

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[6], 156pp, [16]. With a list of subscribers. Jackson p.243. [Bound after:] DAVENPORT, Samuel. A miscellaneous selection of religious and moral quotations, in prose and verse. Derby. Printed by J. Drewry, 1793. First edition. [4], xvii [i.e. xv], [1], iii-iv, 5-146pp. With a half-title and a list of subscribers. ESTC T107783. [Bound before:] STEBBING, Henry. The Minstrel of the Glen: and other poems. London. Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818. First edition. viii, 137pp, [1]. With a half-title and a tipped-in errata slip. Jackson p. 434. 8vo. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-calf, marbled endpapers, contrasting black calf lettering-piece, marbled edges. Heavily rubbed, joints split, chipping to spine, corners bumped. Inked ownership inscriptions to recto of FFEP, very occasional chipping to margins, scattered foxing. A sammelband of three scarce first editions including the sole edition of the first published work of Charlotte Nooth, of whom little is known beyond her being the daughter of London-based surgeon to the Duke of Kent, James Nooth (d. 1815), to whom the present work is dedicated. Nooth evidently resided for a time in Ireland, specifically Down and Antrim, in 1807 (there is a section of Irish ballads on pp.73-91), and, possibly on the Isle of Man - there is a 'Manks Elegy' and another poem 'Written at Sea off the Isle of Man'. The final part of the volume contains a melodrama in verse and prose entitled Clara, or the Nuns of Charity, based on a story by Madame de Genlis. The lengthy list of subscribers shows a wide range of acquaintance with influential socialites, including numerous residents of Kew (where Nooth resided at the time of publication), Mrs. [Eva Maria] Garrick (1724-1822), and diarist Lady [Frances] Shelley (1787-1817). Also contained within is a rare collection of Romantic juvenilia, the first published work, appearing just before his matriculation at St. John's, Cambridge, of Henry Stebbing (1799-1883), who was later to become a popular clergyman and prolific English critic and novelist. The Scottish and Isle of Man-set poem 'Wanderer', which had been privately printed and circulated amongst the author's friends in 1817, features Gothic typography in this volume. ESTC records copies of the second mentioned work at four locations in the British Isles (BL, Cambridge, Derby, and Oxford), and one further in North America (Brigham Young). N° de ref. del artículo AQ24210

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