Book - The Cabinet of Poetry
[Various Authors.] The Cabinet of Poetry, containing the best entire pieces to be found in the works of the British Poets ... in six volumes. Vol. I. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars. 1808. T. Bensley, Bolt-cours.
1808 (Date published)
[Various Authors.] The Cabinet of Poetry, containing the best entire pieces to be found in the works of the British Poets ... in six volumes. Vol. I. London: Printed for Richard Phillips, Bridge-Street, Blackfriars. 1808. T. Bensley, Bolt-cours.
12mo (184 x 119mm), pp. [4], lxxii, 351, [1], with frontispiece engraved by Caroline Watson. Bound in contemporary (or slightly later) tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, with marbled endpapers. Early ink inscriptions to front free endpapers attributed to Judge George Edward Hand and his brother, Daniel Hand; bookplate of MHS to front pastedown.
First volume only of a six-volume set donated to the Hand Academy from Daniel Hand himself: "This book belonged to Judge Geo E Hand and is presented to the 'Hand Academy' of Madison Conn by his brother Daniel Hand April 1890" (front free endpaper verso). George Hand, who signed his name to the book and dated it 1830, must have owned the book just after he graduated from Yale in 1829.
The Cabinet of Poetry was a collection of some of the most commonly-read British poetry at the time, and would have appealed to a wide range of educated readers. This volume contains poetry by Milton, including Paradise Lost. Other poets featured in The Cabinet of Poetry include Dryden, Addison, Pope, and Swift, among others.
Caroline Watson (c.1761-1814) was an engraver who trained under her father James Watson, who was famous in London for his mezzotints. Caroline, who worked in a male-dominated field, was highly respected for her stipple engraving talent, and was the first and only woman to be an independent engraver in the eighteenth century. Further, she openly signed her name without attempting to disguise herself as a man, as in this example: "Engraved by Caroline Watson, 1808."
12mo (184 x 119mm), pp. [4], lxxii, 351, [1], with frontispiece engraved by Caroline Watson. Bound in contemporary (or slightly later) tree calf, spine gilt in compartments, with marbled endpapers. Early ink inscriptions to front free endpapers attributed to Judge George Edward Hand and his brother, Daniel Hand; bookplate of MHS to front pastedown.
First volume only of a six-volume set donated to the Hand Academy from Daniel Hand himself: "This book belonged to Judge Geo E Hand and is presented to the 'Hand Academy' of Madison Conn by his brother Daniel Hand April 1890" (front free endpaper verso). George Hand, who signed his name to the book and dated it 1830, must have owned the book just after he graduated from Yale in 1829.
The Cabinet of Poetry was a collection of some of the most commonly-read British poetry at the time, and would have appealed to a wide range of educated readers. This volume contains poetry by Milton, including Paradise Lost. Other poets featured in The Cabinet of Poetry include Dryden, Addison, Pope, and Swift, among others.
Caroline Watson (c.1761-1814) was an engraver who trained under her father James Watson, who was famous in London for his mezzotints. Caroline, who worked in a male-dominated field, was highly respected for her stipple engraving talent, and was the first and only woman to be an independent engraver in the eighteenth century. Further, she openly signed her name without attempting to disguise herself as a man, as in this example: "Engraved by Caroline Watson, 1808."
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