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More, Hannah. The Works of Miss Hannah More in Prose and Verse. Cork: Printed by Thomas White opposite The Exchange, 1778. 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 of her first Collected Works.