Author: JANES (Thomas):
Title: The Beauties of the Poets. Or, A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry. From the Most Eminent Authors.
Description: London: Printed by J. Fry..., And Sold by T. Evans, Fielding and Walker, and G. Robinson, : Wilson and Nichol, and S. Evans; J. Phillips, and W. Davenhill; J. Gough, and G. Street, London; W. Pine, and T. Mills, in Bristol; D. Prince, in Oxford, Fletcher and Hodson, in Cambridge, 1777. 12mo (in 6s), 173 x 103 mms., pp. xii, 317 [318 blank], including half-title, contemporary calf, gilt spine (faded and worn); lacks label, joints cracked (but firm), top and base of spine chipped. A fair copy, with the autograph "Elih. Bevan/ 1778" within an oval of leaves on the recto of the front free end-paper. Information about the identity of Thomas Janes (1745 - 1775) is rather thin on the ground. He seems to have been well-regarded in Bristol to judge from a publication entitled, An Elegy on the Death of the Rev. Mr. Janes, Late Pastor of the Congregation of Dissenters at Tucker-Street, Bristol, who died the 8th of February, 1775. Aged 30, published in Bristol by Bonner and Middleton in [?1775]. The present work was first issued in 1773, and there were three issues of this title in 1773. In this copy, is edition a poem entitled "The charge of Cyprus the Great" starts at the bottom of page 99, while other copies have "The Deserted Village" starting on that page. One of the poems included is William Cowper's well-known hymn, "God Moves in Mysterious Ways," so this appearance must anticipate its publication in Olney Hymns (1779). All issues are uncommon. This is ESTC T79395, with three locations: L; CaOHM, CaOTU.

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