WILLIAM ST. CLAIR'S COPY
Elegant miscellaneous extracts selected from watts, hervey, newton, young, blair, sturm, &c. &c. to which are added, a few original pieces.
Woodbridge.
Printed and published by B. Smith, 1813.
New edition.
8vo.
[6], 442pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Contemporary gilt-tooled mottled calf, contrasting red calf lettering-piece.Extremities worn, upper joint split, loss to head-cap. Hinges exposed, early ink ownership inscription of Joyce D. Fox to recto of FFEP, worm-tracks to gutter, lower corner of leaf Y3 torn away (though present), with some loss of text and sense. William St. Clair's copy, with his distinctive pencil ownership inscription and brief bibliographical notes to FEP.
The second located copy of a revised edition, printed in the same year as the first, of a provincially published anthology of devotional extracts from the works of noted theologians and spiritual writers, including, Independent minister Isaac Watts (1674-1748), Church of England clergyman and slave trader John Newton (1725-1807), and poet Edward Young (bap. 1683, d. 1765).
William St Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004).
OCLC and COPAC together record copies of this, and the first edition, at a single location (BL).
£ 125.00
Antiquates Ref: 30562
William St Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004).
OCLC and COPAC together record copies of this, and the first edition, at a single location (BL).
