HURDIS, James. (1763-1801) The Village Curate, a poem. London: for J.Johnson, 1788, bound with: Adriano; or, the first of June, a poem. London: for J.Johnson, 1790. 2 works in one volume, 8° (189 x 113mm.). Contemporary tree-calf (rebacked). The Village Curate, a poem. London: for J.Johnson, 1790. 8° (195 x 120mm.). Contemporary tree-calf (joints slightly split). Provenance:Anne St.John (inscription); A.Wood (signature). FIRST EDITION; [Idem.] Bishopstone, Sussex: at the author's own press, to be sold by J.Johnson, London, 1797. 8° (201 x 118mm.). Contemporary half-sheep (head of spine chipped, upper joint slightly split). Provenance: Robert Palk Carrington (armorial bookplate); John Eustace Grubbe (armorial bookplate). Fourth edition; Tears of Affection, a poem, occasioned by the death of a sister tenderly beloved. London: for J.Johnson, 1794, bound with: Sir Thomas More: a tragedy. London: for J.Johnson, 1793. 2 works in one volume, 8° (187 x 118mm.). Contemporary tree calf (wormed). Provenance: N.J.Calhuon (signature). FIRST EDITIONS; The Favorite Village a poem. Bishopstone, Sussex: at the author's own press, 1800. 4° (260 x 207mm.). (First and last few leaves mounted on guards, the first four with repairs at inner margins, the first and last soiled). Modern buckram. FIRST EDITION; Lectures shewing the several sources of that pleasure which the human mind receives from poetry. Bishopstone, Sussex: at the author's own press, sold by J.Johnson, 1797. Number I only (containing lectures numbered I-III (of 22)), 4° (275 x 220mm.). (Some light soiling to outer margins). Original blue paper wrappers (backstrip split), modern box. FIRST EDITION; The Village Curate, and other poems. London: C.Whittingham for John Sharpe, 1810. 8° (211 x 130mm.). Engraved portrait frontispiece (spotted, offset onto title). Contemporary half-russia (neatly rebacked and cornered, old spine laid-down). Provenance: Thomas Penny (booklabel); with four others by Hurdis, including two duplicates and a presentation copy. (11)