Pointon (Priscilla). Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, Birmingham: Printed for the author by T. Warren, 1770, half-title, LXII, [1], 108pp., single-leaf insert paginated *80-82 present (the pagination and register continuous), early ownership signature of J. H. Whitmore to head of half-title, list of subscribers, contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, together with: The Polite Academy, or School of Behaviour for Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Intended as a Foundation for Good Manners and polite Address, in Masters and Misses..., [2nd edition], London: Printed for R. Baldwin and B. Collins, 1762, 36 xxxvi, 108pp., lacks engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved plates, all with contemporary (possibly juvenile) hand-colouring, title with loss to lower portion of fore-margin, affecting some words, several short closed tears and marks elsewhere, contemporary Dutch boards, rubbed and some wear, 12mo, plus six others various: [Thomas Sherlock], A. Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; on occasion of the late Earthquakes, London: printed for John Whiston, 1750 (ESTC T180219), Bernardin de Saint Pierre, The Indian Cottage. Translated from the French of Monsieur De St. Pierre, Author of Etudes de la Nature, Paul et Virginie, London: Printed for John Bew, 1791 (ESTC T114946, John Warden, A Collection from the Spectator, Tatler Guardian, Mr Pope, Mr Dryden, from Mr Rollin's Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, and his Universal History. For the benefit of English Schools, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed for John Warden, Teacher of English, 1752 (first published in Edinburgh in 1737), and three 18th century almanacs (The Ladies Diary: or, Woman's Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1773, The Ladies Diary: or, Woman's Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1778, and The Gentlemans Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an almanac for the year of our Lord 1776), all 8vo (Quantity: 7) Provenance: From the library of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), thence by descent. ESTC T125991 (eighteen copies). Lichfield poet Priscilla Pointon (circa1740-1801) went blind 'in her thirteenth year' (preface, p. vi) yet secured some 1,500 subscribers, including a number of aristocrats, for her first book of verse (she published her second in 1784, by which time she was Mrs Pickering). ESTC records 18 copies world-wide for Pointon's work (most of the UK copies being distributed between Birmingham libraries and Oxford). Polite Academy: ESTC T141024. First published in 1758; one of the rarest 18th-century books for children.
Pointon (Priscilla). Poems on Several Occasions, 1st edition, Birmingham: Printed for the author by T. Warren, 1770, half-title, LXII, [1], 108pp., single-leaf insert paginated *80-82 present (the pagination and register continuous), early ownership signature of J. H. Whitmore to head of half-title, list of subscribers, contemporary red half morocco over marbled boards, rubbed and some marks, 8vo, together with: The Polite Academy, or School of Behaviour for Young Gentlemen and Ladies. Intended as a Foundation for Good Manners and polite Address, in Masters and Misses..., [2nd edition], London: Printed for R. Baldwin and B. Collins, 1762, 36 xxxvi, 108pp., lacks engraved frontispiece, 11 engraved plates, all with contemporary (possibly juvenile) hand-colouring, title with loss to lower portion of fore-margin, affecting some words, several short closed tears and marks elsewhere, contemporary Dutch boards, rubbed and some wear, 12mo, plus six others various: [Thomas Sherlock], A. Letter from the Lord Bishop of London, to the Clergy and People of London and Westminster; on occasion of the late Earthquakes, London: printed for John Whiston, 1750 (ESTC T180219), Bernardin de Saint Pierre, The Indian Cottage. Translated from the French of Monsieur De St. Pierre, Author of Etudes de la Nature, Paul et Virginie, London: Printed for John Bew, 1791 (ESTC T114946, John Warden, A Collection from the Spectator, Tatler Guardian, Mr Pope, Mr Dryden, from Mr Rollin's Method of Teaching and Studying the Belles Lettres, and his Universal History. For the benefit of English Schools, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Printed for John Warden, Teacher of English, 1752 (first published in Edinburgh in 1737), and three 18th century almanacs (The Ladies Diary: or, Woman's Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1773, The Ladies Diary: or, Woman's Almanac, for the year of our Lord 1778, and The Gentlemans Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; an almanac for the year of our Lord 1776), all 8vo (Quantity: 7) Provenance: From the library of Alan Clutton-Brock (1904-1976), thence by descent. ESTC T125991 (eighteen copies). Lichfield poet Priscilla Pointon (circa1740-1801) went blind 'in her thirteenth year' (preface, p. vi) yet secured some 1,500 subscribers, including a number of aristocrats, for her first book of verse (she published her second in 1784, by which time she was Mrs Pickering). ESTC records 18 copies world-wide for Pointon's work (most of the UK copies being distributed between Birmingham libraries and Oxford). Polite Academy: ESTC T141024. First published in 1758; one of the rarest 18th-century books for children.
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