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[BURRELL, Lady Sophia]. Poems. London: J.Cooper for Leigh & Sotheby, T.Payne and J.Robson, 1793. 2 volumes; The Thymbriad. London: sold by Leigh & Sotheby, T.Payne and J.Robson, 1794; bound with: Telemachus. London: sold by Leigh & Sotheby, T.Payne and J.Robson, 1794. 4 works in three volumes, 8° (205 x 123mm.). Uniform contemporary mottled calf gilt. Provenance: William Claye (second husband of the authoress, signatures); C.H.Prescott Westcar). FIRST EDITIONS. - KING, Edward (1735?-1807). Hymns to the Supreme Being. In imitation of the eastern songs. London: T.Bensley for J.White, 1798. 8° (186 x 112mm.). Contemporary red straight-grained morocco gilt, g.e., by Kalthoeber (with his orange label). Provenance: Rev. William Mussage Bradford (armorial bookplate). New edition. - [DOWNMAN, Hugh (1740-1809)]. Poems to Thespia... Exeter: R.Trewman & Son, 1791. 8° (194 x 120mm.). With 8-line errata slip (lacking ?front-blank). Later brown morocco gilt, g.e. Provenance: F.A.Hereward Maitland (bookplate). - With five leatherbound volumes of poetry, including T.Chatterton's Poems, 8°, London, 1778; Gilbert Wakefield's Poetical Translations from the ancients, 8°, London, 1795; Richrad Polwhele's The Influence of local attachment with respect to home. A poem, 8°, London, 1796. (10)