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
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.
