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A MOTHER [i.e. GURNEY, Maria]. Rhymes for my children.

London. John W. Parker, 1840. Second edition, enlarged.
Small 8vo. viii, 110, [6]. With an engraved frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and two terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's dark green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Text-block detached from binding. Extremities lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned.
An enlarged edition of Cornish poet Maria Gurney's [née Rowe] (1802-1868) only published collection of poetry; first printed in 1835.

Besides this collection, Gurney published a handful of fugitive verses in various periodicals, most notably 'Blue-Stockings Over the Border' in Blackwood's Magazine (1828).

All editions are scarce. OCLC records copies of the second at just three locations (BL, Free Library of Philadelphia, and Oxford); COPAC adds no further.
£ 125.00 Antiquates Ref: 34221