Description
AB117587, More Hannah, The Works of Miss Hannah More in Prose and Verse, Cork, 1778, Printed by Thomas White opposite The Exchange, First Edition, Full Calf, Very Good, (v), blank, 415pp. Reprints the prose under the same title as Wilkie & Cadell’s first publication of the previous year, Essays on Various Subjects: Principally Designed for Young Ladies. However the work in verse is first collected here: Ode to Dragon; Mr Garrick’s House-dog at Hampton, Sir Eldred of the Bower, The Bleeding Rock, The Search After Happiness; A Pastoral Drama, The Inflexible Captive; A Tragedy & Percy; A Tragedy. Unprinted tail half of p.9 heavily soiled. 18th century ownership signature (Margaret Bell?). Sympathetically re-backed with gilt lettered red morocco label with one ‘O’ too many in More! Otherwise a pleasing copy in original boards of her first Collected Works.
