THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY'S POETICAL PRECEPTOR

"some of the most exquisite Sonnets, perhaps, ever written"

THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY'S POETICAL PRECEPTOR

Edited by Thomas Woolston

(1794)

Scarce first edition, presentation copy from the editor, of this textbook of canonical poets for students — including Milton, Dryden, Burns, Pope, Smith, Carter, and Barbauld.

Very good.

Price: $3,000.00

THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY'S POETICAL PRECEPTOR

Woolston created this collection of the "most admired poetry" from "the best authors." The biographical summaries at the rear include this description for Charlotte Smith: "Every reader of sensibility must lament, with me, the sorrows and afflictions, which this very amiable Lady has been frequently and long exposed to, though they gave birth to some of the most exquisite Sonnets, perhaps, ever written."

Issued by Mary Luckman, who took over her husband's printing business upon his death in 1784. Quite scarce, with only three copies recorded in ESTC (Bodleian, BL, Canterbury), and another three via OCLC (Yale, Penn State, University of South Carolina). A pocket window into the big names in poetry at the end of the 18th century.

The Object

Coventry: printed and sold by M. Luckman, (1794). 36mo, 5'' x 2.75''. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, maroon spine label, gilt rules to boards. Publisher's catalogue at rear. xii, 310, [2] pages. Ink inscription, "The Gift of the / author April 24th / 1795" to front fly leaf. Subtle paper repairs to gutters of first few leaves. Boards rather rubbed at corners, with some dry crackling to contemporary leather, else neat and clean.

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