O'KEEFFE, Adelaide. Original poems; calculated to improve the mind of youth, and allure it to virtue. London: H. Bryer for J. Harris, 1808. 16° (118 x 89mm), 2 parts in one volume. 8 leaves of letterpress to each part and 15 hand-coloured etched plates (lacking the frontispiece to pt.I). (Last line on one page and headline on another shaved, spotting throughout.) Red half calf gilt (rubbed). Provenance: Edith C. Pollock (book label). FIRST EDITION. Moon H-590. -- Grand-Mamma: or, the Christning "Not at Home". Written by a Lady. May, 1808. London: H. Bryer for J. Harris, [not before 1808]. 16° (125 x 97mm). 16 leaves and etched frontispiece. Original printed yellow wrappers (worn). Provenance: Mary Ann Seal; Robert Bidley (contemporary children's inscriptions). FIRST EDITION of a verse satire. Moon H-327. -- And two others (the coloured and uncoloured issue of John Gilpin 1808, Moon H-171, the first imperfect). (4)

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O'KEEFFE, Adelaide. Original poems; calculated to improve the mind of youth, and allure it to virtue. London: H. Bryer for J. Harris, 1808. 16° (118 x 89mm), 2 parts in one volume. 8 leaves of letterpress to each part and 15 hand-coloured etched plates (lacking the frontispiece to pt.I). (Last line on one page and headline on another shaved, spotting throughout.) Red half calf gilt (rubbed). Provenance: Edith C. Pollock (book label). FIRST EDITION. Moon H-590. -- Grand-Mamma: or, the Christning "Not at Home". Written by a Lady. May, 1808. London: H. Bryer for J. Harris, [not before 1808]. 16° (125 x 97mm). 16 leaves and etched frontispiece. Original printed yellow wrappers (worn). Provenance: Mary Ann Seal; Robert Bidley (contemporary children's inscriptions). FIRST EDITION of a verse satire. Moon H-327. -- And two others (the coloured and uncoloured issue of John Gilpin 1808, Moon H-171, the first imperfect). (4)

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