Author: COWPER (William):
Title: Poems by William Cowper, Esq. With Sketch of his Life, by the Rev. T. Greatheed.
Description: Glasgow: Printed for Richard Griffin & Co. and Thomas Tegg London, 1846. 12mo, 142 x 87 mms., pp. viii, 423 {424 blank], engraved frontispiece (by Freeman after Corbauld), additional engraved title-page, attractively bound in green morocco, gilt decoration on covers, gilt spine in compartments, all edges gilt; spine and joints slightly worn, corners a bit rubbed, but a very good copy. The poems here are the same as those published in the 1802 printing (Russell 89). The biographer, Samuel Greatheed preached a sermon on Cowper's death on 18 May 1800. His edition was first published in 1819 (Russell 126), with a frontispiece portrait of Cower, and reprinted in 1820, 1821, 1823, and 1833, each time with some modifications of the text or the arrangement of the material Copac locates a copy in the BL with a date for this imprint of 1845, and this 1846 printing, which is otherwise unrecorded, is apparently a straightforward reprint with a new title-page and date.

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