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Author

Stockdale, Mary R.

Title

The Effusions of the heart: poems.

Imprint

London:printed for John Stockdale, 1798.

Physical description

pp.160,[4]. Half title. Plate. Subscribers List. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards.

Call number

WPRP 152.

Citation

L,AWn,C,O,CtY,IU in ESTC. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, p. 317. ESTC does not mention the subscribers list present in this copy, however it is possible that this should not be bound here. At the foot of the last leaf is an errata "Error of the Pres--Vide p.168, six following leaves incorrectly pag'd, though properly plac'd." This work ends on p. 160 which strongly suggests that this subscribers list does not belong here.

Bio

Mary R. Stockdale, born in London c.1769, the daughter of the publisher John Stockdale and Mary Ridgeway (also a publisher's daughter). She contributed to the Morning Post from 1811 to 1814 and to The Juvenile Forget-Me-Not in 1829 and 1830.

Notes

Includes Dedication, "To the Reader," and List of Subscribers.

Epigraph

Illustration, source not listed and epigraph:

No fine flowing language There interweave,

The device is expressive and true;

This breast is too honest, my fair, to deceive,

And the rim simply says, ‘I love you’.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see,

Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be.

In every work regard the writer’s end,

Since none can compass more than they intend;

And if the means be just, the conduct true,

Applause, in spite of trivial faults, is due.

 

POPE

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