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The Thymbriad, (From Xenophon's Cyropoedia.) by BURRELL, SOPHIA, LADY - 1794
by BURRELL, SOPHIA, LADY
The Thymbriad, (From Xenophon's Cyropoedia.)
by BURRELL, SOPHIA, LADY
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London: Sold by Leigh and Sotheby; T. Payne; and J. Robson, 1794, 1794. First edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 46. Fine copy.. 8vo, contemporary brown sprinkled calf skillfully rebacked, green morocco label, gilt decorations and lettering.
A poem based on classical sources, mainly Xenophon, about the battle of Thymbra near Troy. Lady Sophia Burrell (1753-1802) was an interesting minor poet and dramatist who often used antiquity as a theme in her poems and plays. This is her third book.
A poem based on classical sources, mainly Xenophon, about the battle of Thymbra near Troy. Lady Sophia Burrell (1753-1802) was an interesting minor poet and dramatist who often used antiquity as a theme in her poems and plays. This is her third book.
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- Format/Binding Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, page 46
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- Publisher London: Sold by Leigh and Sotheby; T. Payne; and J. Robson, 1794
- Date Published 1794
Poems Volume 2
by Burrell Sophia Lady 1750?-1802
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The Thymbriad, (From Xeonphon's Cyropedia.)
by BURRELL [née Raymond], (Sophia, Lady Burrell):
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London: Sold by Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate; and J. Robson, in Bond Street. 1794,. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 207 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 154 [155 Errata, 156 blank]. BOUND WITH Telemachus. By Lady Burrell. London: Sold by Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Garden; T. Payne, at the Mews Gate; and J. Robson, in Bond Street. 8vo, 207 x 122 mms., pp. [iv], 78. 2volumes in 1, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines (rubbed and slightly dried); joints slightly cracked (but firm), a goodish copy with the autograph of "Richard and Julia Rowley" on the verso of the front free end-paper. Lady Burrell's opening line of The Thymriad repeats Dryden's opening line in his translation of Virgil's AEnid, "Arms, and the Man I sing...." The two volumes seem to have been offered for sale separately, but The Monthly Review in 1795 , noted, "Though these two poems are published separately, we give our opinion of them jointly,…
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Poems dedicated to the Right Honourable the Earl of Mansfield.
by BURRELL [née Raymond], (Sophia, Lady Burrell):
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London: Printed by T. Cooper, Bow Street, Covent Garden. Sold by Leigh and Sotheby, York Street, Covent Gardedn; T. P:ayne, at the Mews Gate; and J. Borson, in Bond Street. 1793. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 207 x 122 mms., pp. [viii] vi, 286; [ii], vii [viii Errata], 303 [304], including half-titles, title-page in volume 1 in cancelled state, author identified only on title-page of volume 2, contemporary mottled calf, gilt spines (rubbed and slightly dried); ink spot on title-page of volume, slight cracking of joints (but firm), corners slightly worn, but a reasonable set, inscribed on recto of front free end-paper of volume 1 "M. Augusta Martin" and "Richard and Julia Rowley." The former is possibly M. Augusta Martin (1844 - 1889, later Mrs. H. B. Schreiner; while the second names could be those of Richard Freeman Roweley (1806 - 1854) and Elizabeth Julia Angerstein (1804 - 1870). The dedicatee is William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield (1705 - 1793). The poet and…
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