Author: CARLYLE (Joseph Daker). [CARLYLE (Susannah Maria, editor)]:
Title: Poems, suggested chiefly by scenes in Asia-Minor, Syria, and Greece, with Prefaces extracted from the author's journal. Embellished with Two Views of the Source of the Scamder, and the Aqueduct over the Simois. By the Late J. D. Carlyle.
Description: London: Printed by William Bulmr and Co. Shakespeare Printing Office; fro John White, Horace's Head, Fleet-Street. 1805 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 4to, 239 x 175 mms., pp. [iv], xvi [xvii - xx contents and drop-title], 149 [150 blank], including half-title and list of subscribers, with acquatint view as frontispiece, with one further acquatint plate, contemporary half calf, dull marbled boards, spine rubbed and chipped at foot, joints cracked but sound, some damp rippling to first few leaves, else a clean copy. Joseph Dacre Carlyle, some time Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge, and afterwards Vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, was born at Carlisle, June 4, 1758. In 1799 he accompanied the Earl of Elgin to Constantinople with the object of exploring the literary treasures of the public library of that city. He extended his journey into Asia Minor, and the islands and shores of the Archipelago. He died at Newcastle, April 12, 1804. A lot of the verse is pedestrian, but I ws intrigued by one entitled, "The Salted Cherry, A Tale. To bae written in Mrs. Woolstencroft's [sic] Rights of Women."

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