Author: TOMKINS (E. [sic, for Thomas]):
Title: Poems on Various Subjects; Selected to enforce the Practice of Virtue, and to comprise in one Volume the Beauties of English Poetry. A New Edition, with Vignettes.
Description: London: Printed for B. Crosby and Co....By J. Swan..., 1804. 12mo, 153 x 92 mms., pp. [vi], 256, engraved vignette on title-page and three other engraved vignettes, contemporary calf, gilt border on covers, gilt spine, red leather label; one front free end-paper removed, binding a little worn, but a good to very good copy. Tomkins (1743 - 1816) was noted for his calligraphy and and produced a number of decorative works for various publishers, though little of his original work seems to have survived. ODNB gives the first date for the publication of Poems on Various Subjects as 1806. In the introduction, Tomkins is agreeably laconic: "The Editor of this Collection has not much to say ont he preent occasion." Having said something similar, many editors would then proceed to say a lot. Tomkins published a prelude to this work in 1777, entitled The Beauties of Writing; the first edition of the above work was published in 1780.

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