Poems on the Principal Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England. I. On the Annunciation of the blessed Virgin Mary; commonly called, Lady-Day, March 25. II. On the Nativity of our Saviour, or Birth-Day of Christ; commonly called, Christmas-Day, December 25. III. On the Circumcision of Christ, being New-Year s-Day, January 1. . . XI. On Trinity-Sunday; being the Lord s-Day, next after Whit-Sunday. With Prayers for the said Festivals and Fasts. Designed for the Instruction and Benefit of humble and serious Christians. By Daniel Hallows, A. M. Rector of Gilston in Hertfordshire.

HALLOWS, DANIEL.

Verlag: London: Printed for J. Wilford, behind the Chapter House, near St. Paul s, 1733.

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120pp., 12mo. Variable wormtrack in the upper margin occasionally affecting a single letter, the text perfectly clear, a few minor stains. Original blind-ruled sheep; worn with the joints split, but holding quite firmly on the binder s two sawn-in thongs. Loosely inserted is a trimmed impression of the book s subsequent, cancel title: "The Sacred Miscellany: or, Poems on Divine Subjects," this dated 1734. First edition, with a preliminary dedication "To the Youth of Great Britain": "In these loose and dangerous Times, wherein Atheists, Deists, Blasphemers, Arians, Socinians, Infidels, are so numerous and impudent. . . ." The work was clearly not a success, and was reissued the following year with the simpler title cited above. John Sitter, in The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (2011), p. 19, quotes Hallows to illustrate the difference between good and bad heroic couplets: Hallows s lines "are tolerably regular, end-stopped, and easily understood, but they are intolerably plodding. . . ." Foxon, English Verse 1701-1750, p. 323, records copies at the Bodleian Library and Winchester College, the former being a "presentation copy. . . with ms. corrections," and a single copy of the 1734 reissue at the British Library. ESTC, OCLC, and COPAC add one more copy, at All Souls, Oxford. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 12135

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Titel: Poems on the Principal Festivals and Fasts ...

Verlag: London: Printed for J. Wilford, behind the Chapter House, near St. Paul s, 1733.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Good

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