Scenes and sketches in Cornwall

[TRELAWNY, Anne]

Verlag: W. Brendon, Tavistock, 1844

Beschreibung

54pp, [2]. With an engraved frontispiece and a tipped-in errata slip. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers, later naively rebacked in calf. Some staining to extremities. Title lightly dust-soiled, closed tear to gutter, occasional spotting. A remarkably rare survival of the sole recorded edition of a provincially published collection of poems inspired by the landscape and monuments of Cornwall, attributed to Cornish native Anne Trelawny, later Gibbons, author of a further five (equally scarce) books, including a translation of Schiller's tragedy Maria Stuart (1838), three further volumes of poetry, An Easter Offering (1845), The Tale of Trecarrel; or, Legend of Launceston Church (1849), and Spiritual Songs, a Whitsun Gift (1861), and a single non-fiction work, An Itinerary of Launceston, Cornwall. Containing some account of its antiquities, etc. (1865). The Bibliotheca Cornubiensis (Vol. I, 1874) suggests that the present work was sold 'for the benefit of the Orphan Asylum and The Falmouth Polytechnic, at their annual bazaar'. COPAC records single copy (BL); OCLC adds no further. Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ21094

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Scenes and sketches in Cornwall

Verlag: W. Brendon, Tavistock

Erscheinungsdatum: 1844

Einband: Softcover

Auflage: First ediiton.