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'R. H. R.'[Dr. Robert Hutchinson ROSE (1776-1842)]. Sketches in Verse [edited by Joseph Dennie]. Philadelphia: Printed for C. & A. Conrad & Co. by Smith & Maxwell, 1810 (c 1819). 23 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. Second series; no. 21241).[iii-]viii, [9-]184 pp.
Includes an engraved title page, 2 engraved plates, and a tailpiece. Engravings are assumed by some to have been added to a later issue, c 1819. Deluxe issue or a re-issue - either way the book is fairly rare.
Plates engraved by George Murray
and William Satchwell Laney, after Thomas Sully illustrations - early examples of this American painter’s published work.
Period tree calf leather binding, morocco spine label, gilt lettering, and design; joints splitting, spine ends and corners rubbed; repairs to hinges; text has moderate foxing; illustrations have browned and transferred to facing page. Introduction signed R.H.R., i.e. Robert H. Rose.
Includes the long poem Lyrical Ballad, an early parody of William Wordsworth.
Bookplate: Maurice H. Garland, Lynchburg, a lawyer from a prominent Virginia family.
A description of the illustrations quoted from the British Library - which accepts the 1810 date:
NB: Laid-in is a 1904 handwritten letter from David Hutcheson, Library of Congress, to Dr. Robert Fletcher, Washington D.C., concerning the authorship of this book.