Author: CHANDLER (Mary):
Title: The Description of Bath. A Poem. Humbly Inscribed To Her Royal Highness the Princes Amelia. With several other Poems. The Eighth Edition. To which is added, A True Tale, by the same Author.
Description: London: Printed for James Leake..., 1744 8vo, 195 x 113 mms., pp. [xii], 85 [86 adverts], including half-title, recently rebound in quarter calf, marbled boards, gilt spine, morocco label; lacking the 11 leaves of adverts. ESTC T63116 describes this as "A reissue of the fifth edition, with a half-title, a different title-page and sig. F7 a cancel," but does not mention that this is the first appearance of the poem, "A True Tale," addressed to Mr. Leake, i. e., James Leake, the brother-in-law of the printer Samuel Richardson who printed editions two to seven. "A True Tale" appears here as a result of a proposal of marriage that Mrs. Chandler received in 1741 when she was 54. She refused him and turned the episode into a poem, noting "Fourscore long Miles, to buy a crooked Wife!/ Old too! I thought the oddest thing in Life...." ESTC locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Wales, TCD; Folger, Rice, Yale; National Library of Australia. Foxon, C112.

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