Poems by the Rev. Josiah Relph, of Sebergham. RELPH (Rev. Josiah).

Poems by the Rev. Josiah Relph, of Sebergham. With the Life of the Author. Embellished with Picturesque Engravings on Wood, by Mr. T. Bewick, of Newcastle.

Title-page woodcut vignette, six woodcut vignettes in the text and 11 woodcut tailpieces.

First Edition. 8vo. [230 x 140 x 17 mm]. xxiv, 147, [1] pp. Uncut. Bound c.1960 in quarter brown goatskin, brown cloth sides, spine lettered and dated in gilt,
Carlisle: printed by and for J. Mitchell, and sold by T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, London, 1798

Hugo 124. Tattersfield TB 2.489.

Priced at Three Shillings and Sixpence. The title and preliminaries are lightly browned and there is a little minor soiling, but it is a good copy with uncut edges.

Mitchell's Dedication to Sir Wilfrid Lawson of Brayton-Hall claims that this is the second edition. Relph died in 1743 and A Miscellany of Poems, was printed by Robert Foulis in Glasgow in 1747. Another edition of his Poems, with a life of the author and a pastoral elegy on his death by Thomas Sanderson, was published in Carlisle by William Thompson in 1797. This 1798 edition is regarded by ESTC as a different work, and it is the first to print Bewick's woodcuts. It was reprinted in Newcastle on Tyne in 1799.

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