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SHENSTONE, William (1714-1763). Poems upon Various Occasions, Written for the Entertainment of the Author, And Printed for the Amusement Of a few Friends. Oxford: Leon[ard] Lichfield, 1737.
8° (154 x 96mm). Red and black letter title, metalcut ornaments. (Some slight marginal staining not affecting text.) 18th-century polished speckled calf gilt, gilt crest of the Crewe-Milne family on upper cover, red edges (hinges partly cracked, head of spine rubbed, some wear to extremities). Provenance: James Bindley (autograph note initialed); Jospeh Haslewood (armorial bookplate); Robert, Marquess of Crewe (armorial bookplate). Lowndes 2376.
Shenstone attempted, in later life, to recall as many copies of this work as possible: 'many years before his death he was so much ashamed of these, Juvenalia, that he consciously destroyed the copies, whenever he could get them into his possession.' (See the note by James Brindley in this copy.) This work was printed ptivately, and contains the first printed draft of the Schoolmistress, a work which received praise from his contemporary Samuel Johnson, with whom he was at Pembroke College, Oxford, and from Goldsmith.
8° (154 x 96mm). Red and black letter title, metalcut ornaments. (Some slight marginal staining not affecting text.) 18th-century polished speckled calf gilt, gilt crest of the Crewe-Milne family on upper cover, red edges (hinges partly cracked, head of spine rubbed, some wear to extremities). Provenance: James Bindley (autograph note initialed); Jospeh Haslewood (armorial bookplate); Robert, Marquess of Crewe (armorial bookplate). Lowndes 2376.
Shenstone attempted, in later life, to recall as many copies of this work as possible: 'many years before his death he was so much ashamed of these, Juvenalia, that he consciously destroyed the copies, whenever he could get them into his possession.' (See the note by James Brindley in this copy.) This work was printed ptivately, and contains the first printed draft of the Schoolmistress, a work which received praise from his contemporary Samuel Johnson, with whom he was at Pembroke College, Oxford, and from Goldsmith.