Author: [MACKENZIE (William)]:
Title: The Sorrows of Seduction. In Eight Delineations, with Other Poems. Second Edition, considerably improved.
Description: London: Printed for William Gordon, Circulating Library..., 1806. 8vo, 159 x 95 mms., pp. viii, [9] - 158, engraved frontispiece (by Allen after Buck) neatly coloured by hand, and one engraved plates (by Allen after Corbauld), also neatly coloured by hand, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, gilt spine; intermittent foxing and spotting, frontispiece partially detached at upper margin, front joint cracked and tender, top and base of spine chipped. Mackenzie (1772 - 1852] in the address to the reader declares his indifference to the fate of his verse, but takes the precaution of printing some favourable reviews from the journals, e. g., the Eclectic Review: "This is a Poem of considerable merit, on an interesting theme...." In a footnote, Mackenzie adds, "In the first edition, the Poems of the Sorrows of Seduction, was on in Six Delineations, but in the present the author has added two more." A third edition appeared in 1810. Copac locates eight copies of three different editions in UK libraries; OCLC adds the University of Michigan.

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