Research Catalog

Title

Poems, / by Felicia Dorothea Browne.

Author

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835.

Publication

Liverpool : Printed by G. F. Harris, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1808.

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Additional Authors

• Harris, George Frederick, -1812.
• Cadell & Davies, publisher.

Description

xxvii, [1], 111 pages; 29 cm

Note

• First edition.
• 4to: []⁴, b-c⁴, d², B-P⁴ [w/m: 1806]
• Subscription list.
• Vignette wood engravings on titlepage and throughout.
• This is Hemans's first production published by her parents when she was only fourteen.
• "Percy Bysshe Shelley, after reading her first volume and hearing from Medwin of her personal charms, wrote inviting her to correspond with him. She refused and when Shelley persisted in writing, her mother is said to have intervened." -- cf. C. R. Johnson

Indexed In (note)

• Jackson, J. R. de J. Romantic poetry by women
• Johnson, C. R. Provincial poetry

Call Number

NCM+ (Hemans, F. D. B. Poems)

LCCN

25020693

OCLC

3937027

Author

Hemans, Mrs., 1793-1835.

Title

Poems, / by Felicia Dorothea Browne.

Imprint

Liverpool : Printed by G. F. Harris, for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1808.

Indexed In:

Jackson, J. R. de J. Romantic poetry by women, page 152

Johnson, C. R. Provincial poetry, 139

Local Note

Pforzheimer Copy 1: Original blue-green boards, tan paper spine label, printed: Miss Browne's poems., untrimmed; front cover detached. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer through Ingpen and Stonehill, June 1929.

Pforzheimer Copy 2: Original blue-green boards, blue paper spine label, printed: Miss Browne's poems, untrimmed, front cover detached. -- Inked note on cover "This Mrs. Hemans' Youngest Poetry." -- Inked note on front paste-down signed J.L. Wynne and dated November 1844; the same name is inscribed on the free endpaper. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer through Raphael King, June 1950.

Pforzheimer Copy 3: Original blue green boards, printed tan paper spine label, chipped; spine repaired. -- Pencil note on front paste-down regarding this work. -- Acquired by the Pforzheimer Library from the Brimmell Collection, November 9, 1966.

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Added Author

Harris, George Frederick, -1812., printer.

Cadell & Davies, publisher.

Research Call Number

NCM+ (Hemans, F. D. B. Poems)

Pforz+ (Hemans, F. Poems. 1808. 1st ed. Liverpool)